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HTA Automatically Creates Mappings
After discovering a script that determines and maps the next available drive to a network share, a reader incorporated the script into an HTML Application. With this HTA, you can create persistent or nonpersistent mappings and use alternative credentials.
Windows IT Pro
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Jim Turner
Scripting on a Cluster
Running scripts reliably on a cluster can be challenging. Here's a solution that's not only effective but also easy to implement.
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Jim Turner
How to Determine the Next Available Drive Letter When Z Is Already Mapped
Many scripts that determine the next available drive letter assume the user always maps drive letters in alphabetical order. Here's a VBScript solution you can use when that's not the case.
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Simon Zeltser
Create Site-Specific Printer Mappings for Mobile Users
Providing local print services for mobile users can be problematic in small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) with multiple sites. Here's a solution that automatically determines which site a mobile user is in, then maps the appropriate printers at that site.
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
How AddressBasedPrinter.vbs Works
Here's a brief look at how this VBScript script creates site-specific printer mappings.
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
Script Gathers Scheduled Task Information
Here's a VBScript script that uses Schtasks.exe to gather scheduled task data from all the computers in a given organizational unit (OU).
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Karen Bemowski
Avoid Ugly Computer Inventory Reports—Save Your Script's Output in Microsoft Word
Here's a VBScript script that retrieves a computer's memory and process information, then writes it to a nicely formatted Microsoft Word report. The report is customizable—you can even include an image, such as a company logo, on the report’s title page.
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Readers
Customize the Size of Taskbar-Button Groups
In Windows Vista and Windows XP, taskbar buttons from the same application are grouped. However, you have no control over when grouping starts or ends. Here's how you can gain control and have the taskbar buttons group when you want them to.
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
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[July 9, 2008]
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Clean Up Your Shortcut Names
If you want to change the verbose names Windows automatically uses for new shortcuts, you can modify a registry setting to make new shortcut names cleaner and use a simple script to clean up existing shortcut names.
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
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[June 11, 2008]
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Display Previous Logon Information When a User Logs On
By incorporating some VBScript code in a logon script, you can display a pop-up window that contains when the last successful logon and last unsuccessful logon have occurred, and how many unsuccessful logon attempts there have been.
Windows IT Pro
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Rick Bridges
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[May 6, 2008]
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Turn On, Tune In, and Disconnect, Part 2
SIDFinderLite.hta is a utility you can run to find and display records in any SID database that UpdateSIDdb.vbs creates.
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Jim Turner
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[May 6, 2008]
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Using setInterval to Overcome an HTA Shortcoming
Learn how you can avoid a blank HTA window during startup. All it takes is four simple steps.
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Jim Turner
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[April 23, 2008]
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Turn On, Tune In, and Disconnect, Part 1
Maintaining a SID database can come in handy when you need to retrieve a user's or group's ID but you have only a SID.
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Jim Turner
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[April 9, 2008]
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Function Creates Multidimensional Arrays from Delimited Text Files
You don’t have to write a separate routine for text-based processes to arrange data into a usable form—use this VBScript script to create a multidimensional array of the data to reference it by rows and columns like a database.
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Jim Turner
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[March 26, 2008]
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Getting the Dell Express Service Code
DellSerial.js can shorten the call time required when you need to work with Dell's technical support team. This script also demonstrates how JScript is sometimes easier to use than VBScript.
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Bill Stewart
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[March 5, 2008]
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Reversing Lines in a File
The Microsoft .NET Framework's Stack class in the System.Collections namespace is the foundation of reversal scripts that run in WSH and in PowerShell.
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
Reversing Lines in a File
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
Reversing Lines in a File
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
Reversing Lines in a File
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
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[February 20, 2008]
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Working with Shortcuts in Windows PowerShell
The Get-Shortcut.ps1 script lets you quickly transform shortcut files into shortcut objects, simplifying many shortcut management tasks such as exporting IE Favorites and deleting stale shortcuts.
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
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