116 - Understanding the Windows Scripting Host

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Windows Scripting Host. ‘ Hello world! Example script. MsgBox(”Hello world! ….. The Windows Scripting Host is the. tool that Windows has needed since its …

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One ofWindows’smost notable
deficiencies when compared
with other operating systems
is its lack of a batch language for automating
tasks. Although the underlying
MS-DOS supports batch files, they are
of little use in the Windows environment:
under Windows 3.1 you can’t
even launch Windows programs from
batch files.
Support staff wishing to automate
tasks for their users have been forced
to use third-party tools like Wilson
WinBatch or JP Software’s Take Command.
Because these tools are not part
of Windows, they must be separately
installed before they can be used. Licensing
of these toolsmeans that additional
costs are often incurred, which,
if the budget is not available, becomes
a problem.
This limitation ofWindows was removed
with the advent of the Windows
Scripting Host (WSH).Available
since the release of Internet Explorer
3.0, Microsoft originally kept quiet
about the facility. This is no longer the
case, and theWSH is one of the standard
accessories to be included in Windows
98. It can be also be downloaded
from www.microsoft.com/scripting
to install on Windows 95 and NT 4.0
[and is lso on this month’s CD-ROM -
Ed.]. Documentation for the Microsoft
script engines can…