SIDFinderLite.hta is a utility you can run to find and display records in any SID database that UpdateSIDdb.vbs creates.

Learn how you can avoid a blank HTA window during startup. All it takes is four simple steps.

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.

You can redefine, change through aliasing, or delete PowerShell's internal functions to create the best work environment for your needs. Add your customizations to a profile script to make them persistent.

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.

This practical, compact Windows PowerShell script makes it easy to calculate dissimilar time-span values and display them in a uniform way.

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.

The author’s Get-Usage script displays usage for more categories of command types than PowerShell’s Get-Command or Get-Help cmdlets.

EventLogBackupAndCopy.vbs and EventLogBackup.vbs can help ensure that your event-log backups are recoverable and viewable in the event of a security breach or virus outbreak.

In general, if the documentation definition for a class includes a ComVisibleAttribute that's set to True, you can try creating it within a script, but some experimentation is necessary.

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.

If you use a script to simply copy a font into the Fonts folder, you can't see the font in that folder or the Windows font listings. The problem is that the font needs to be registered. Here's how to solve that problem.

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.

StaleAccounts.js, a new tool written in JScript, makes finding stale accounts in Active Directory (AD) easy. It searches using the lastLogon, lastLogonTimestamp, or pwdLastSet attributes, and it can look for either user or computer objects.

If you need scripts or command-line code to work with compressed data, bzip2 will be good to have in your toolbox. This free utility can work with cmd.exe or from within Windows PowerShell to compress and decompress data, and pass it along to other tools.

Windows desktops in Department of Defense (DoD) agencies must meet several security requirements for 48 different types of files. Learn how a short .vbs script helped one agency make the necessary changes to the files' registry settings.

PowerShell 1.0's cmdlets for managing services aren't designed for remote access. The Get-StoppedAutomaticService script uses Get-WmiObject to work around this limitation and find failed services throughout a network.

What can you do when you want to check your servers every 60 minutes but your script takes 90 minutes to run against all your computers? Try MultiThreader.vbs. This script executes a worker script in parallel processes, simulating multi-threaded behavior.

This RepairNetwork script offers a quick, quiet command-line alternative to a laborious GUI process.

The names that Out-Printer uses to identify printers aren’t obvious and aren't directly available to you in PowerShell. Here are several ways you can obtain and make printer names available to your code with no copying and pasting and minimal typing.