>In Windows 2000, we can define the title, author, etc for each individual files (even for txt files) by right clciking on the file and selecting properties.
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>Is there any way to programmatically read these values?
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>Note: I know how to read the file size and attributes etc. But I don't know how to read those special properties.

I don't really know but my guess would be you can with the windows scripting host.