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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm a huge PowerShell fanboy. I actively blog about PowerShell, tweet about PowerShell, and present about PowerShell. I'm also the president of a local PowerShell users group. Needless to say, I no ...

How much data are you looking at logging to the database? If there is a lot, you may run into performance issues as the script waits for the writing to Access to finish. The other downside is that it ...

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 ...

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...