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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read the first line of every file in a folder and then move each file if the line contains thisdomain.com or thatdomain.com?-- AZ Hey, AZ. We’ll get to your question in a moment. However, before we do that we have something important to say: flight of cheeses. OK, we can go on now. Thanks for waiting. What&rsq...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve the Subject property for a .MSI file?-- J L-G Hey, J L-G. Before you ask, the Scripting Guy who writes this column has no comment on the January 8th Florida-Ohio State football game. That’s primarily because this Scripting Guy refuses to recognize the “Bowl Championship Series” as being an...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a new item to Office Word’s AutoCorrect list?-- OK Hey, OK. To begin with, we should point out that we have no way of knowing whether your initials really are O and K; after all, they could just as easily be TR, and you could actually be Tony Romo, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, writing to us under an ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the version of DirectX installed on a computer?-- ML Hey, ML. How can you determine the version of DirectX installed on a computer? That’s an important question, and we’ll get to that in a moment. Before we do that, however, there’s an even more important issue we need to address: quicksa...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get the Date Picture Taken property from a .JPG file?-- MW Hey, MW. Before we answer your question we should point out that this is likely to be the last Hey, Scripting Guy! column for quite some time to come. Not that we’re going anywhere, mind you. It’s just that on Saturday, the Seattle Seahawks will ...