Gurus,
I need a script which will when launched, ask for a computer name (and
receive operator input), ask for a username (and receive operator input),
and then finally ask for a password (and receive operator input).  It will

Trying to rename a file with a date variable and not sure what to do.
If the file is called ach file 8.29 and would like to rename is at ach file
8.29.txt
Renaming the file as a txt file is simple, but not sure how to include the

Pardon the OT question; if there's a better place to ask, please direct me.
So here's my problem .. I have this CMD shell script (not VBScript or
PowerShell), and what I need to do is some string manipulation.
Specifically:

How can I get the first value of a multi-valued string in VBS? I'm trying to
get the first (and only) entry in the canonicalName property of an AD user
object. I'm trying to do something like this:
strSomeString = objADUser.canonicalName

I have WindowsXP pro.
When the computer in cold booted I get a
repetitive popup telling me of a "New
Instance of Microsoft Script Editor" with the

I am having an odd problem with a pretty basic script.  The script is used
to set an attribute, primarily pwdlastset, but those specifics don't matter
because I get the same error with other attributes as well.
If I use AD users and Computers I am able to set the attributes no ...

I have a batchfile that copies files in a directory to another directory.
Files are being copied to the source directory and I don´t want the copy to
include files in progress of being copied. How do I do this?
Regards Lars

I want to have a script fire off an email when a user logs in to one
of my servers, or when they unlock their session. I can do the email
part easy enough, but do any of you have ideas of how to identify when
someone does an interactive login and/or unlock?

Is there is a win32 class that returns the serial number of the computer?
I'm writing some scripts to remotely determine the components of a computer
in my network and see the win32_computersystem class returns the
manufacturer and model of the computer but I don't see a property ...

Gurus,
Does anyone have a script which will send a Text message to a cell phone?  I
need this for a network monitoring product we are using.  While it can send
SMTP and pager notifications, it does not have native support for sending

Gurus,
I have a desktop application that I launch via script.  But for a process
inside of it to complete I need the application window to be open but AND
active.  Does anyone know of a script which can bring say for instance, a

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
I created a scheduled job with that "at" command that runs every morning at
2:00 AM :
"cmd /c C:\MyFolder\MyBatFile.bat"

I have writen a vbscript that reads active directory user acounts and
generates a HTML file which is basically a company telephone list
which is used on our company Intranet.
There are 3 HTML files, header.html, body.html and footer.html.  The

I need to delete some files from remote machines (eg: all files endin
with error.doc). I have got a script for the same. But the problem i
it will delete only the files I specify, like if I mention error.doc i
will delete only that particular file, it will not delete newerror.doc

Is there any way to verify if File and Print Sharing is enabled using
scripts?
Thanks,
Felipe