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 ...

Tap into the power and convenience of these obscure VBScript tools. They’re easy to use, customizable, and offer a quick way to knock out printing tasks. Back in the Windows XP days, Microsoft ...

I have a vbs login script that I use at work. I wish that this vb script would run without the use of a batch file, but since we have Win98 clients, I see no other way (if anyone knows of another way, ...

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VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.

In my last two articles, I discussed how to read and write to files using Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). This week we discuss how to declare and use variables, constants and strings. In ...

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 ...

Windows Script Host provides scripting abilities like batch files but includes many more features. It can be used manually by a user as well as created by the operating system to automate the flow of ...