{"id":20,"date":"2006-01-20T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/scripts-tips-update\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T15:20:26","slug":"scripts-tips-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/scripts-tips-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripts &#038; Tips Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added some scripts to the <a href=\"\/usergroup\/\">Scripts &#038; Tips forum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A script to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=2546\">Monitor Startup Programs<\/a>. Useful for detecting rogue apps like spyware etc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=2548\">Is Drive Ready<\/a>. A function to determine whether the drive is ready or not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=2549\">Automatically Create a System Restore Point<\/a>. Useful at the start of a script that installs software or makes critical changes to the system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=2550\">Backup the Registry<\/a>.  Well worth scheduling to run regularly, or run manually before installing software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=2551\">Create a New Outlook Contact<\/a>.  Demonstrates how you can automatically add new contacts to Outlook.  Could be used for importing data from another source, or could be integrated with a script that automatically parses order notification emails etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added some scripts to the Scripts &#038; Tips forum: A script to Monitor Startup Programs. Useful for detecting rogue apps like spyware etc Is Drive Ready. A function to determine whether the drive is ready or not. Automatically Create a System Restore Point. Useful at the start of a script that installs software or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}