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.

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 ...

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 ...

programmatically access the file system and create, modify, delete, open, and close files for different purposes. To open/create a file in VBScript, you must create a handle on the FileSystemxxx ...

At school I am moving all my DOS scripts to VBScript and have a little problem. I want my script to check \\server\share\username to see if the folder exists. If not create it, then map drive X to ...

Is there a way to call a Function inside a VBScript from another VBScript? We have VBScripts that automate certain tasks at my job, but if you ever need to change something, you have to change all of ...

In a nutshell: VBScript is an active scripting language that's been part of Windows history since Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, and Windows CE. Now, after 25 years on the market, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...