As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

A facility within Windows that executes VBScript and JScript, which are Microsoft's ActiveX scripting languages. Via the installation of additional scripting engines, Windows Script Host (WSH) can ...

Are you one of those efficient administrators who insists on automating as many tasks as possible in your environment? Yeah, okay, me too. Maybe “lazy” is a better word than “efficient,” but it’s all ...

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work. Scripting in Windows has taken different ...

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm's way by using Microsoft's Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...

If you want to turn on or off Location Scripting on Windows, this post is what you need. In Windows 11/10, by default, all location scripts run. However, if you want to disable Location Scripting on ...

Script Start will provide the source code for its desktop-automation tool. Entrigue Systems, which develops the Windows logon-scripting tool Script Start, will unveil Tuesday that it is taking the ...

Click to viewEveryone's got a virtual junk drawer, that folder where you save downloads, email attachments, and disposable files you only need access to temporarily. Problem is, these files can build ...

When you log in to the computer, if you see a message box with an error message saying Can not find script file in Windows 11 and Windows 10, then this post may be ...

On March 19, 2003, Microsoft warned of a flaw in the Windows Script Engine, which executes JScript and Visual Basic scripts on a Windows computer. The scripts can be used to add functionality on a Web ...

The Windows Script Host, or WSH, facilitates the execution of scripts on your computer such as VB or Java. Enabled by default, WSH enables system administrators to automate a number of processes on a ...