Learn about the features in Windows Script Host and its native scripting engines, VBScript and JScript, that make automating just about any Windows task a snap.

With each new Windows OS release, the command prompt gets further away from the user. Oracle still ships most of its main server utilities as command-line utility programs, so it's becoming ...

MS03-008: Windows Script Engine vulnerability 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.

Windows Tip Sheet Remote Scripting with Windows Script Host Conquer your world of servers from home. By Don Jones 09/27/2004 Go “On Location” Without Getting Up Are you one of those efficient ...

More power to the double-click!Few are aware of scripting with batch files, but people don’t use batch files much unless when working with mountainous tasks. Even fewer are aware of Windows ...

What does Windows Script Host actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

In previous versions of the Windows operating system, Windows Script Host (WSH) has been the standard scripting language to execute such tasks. But with the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft ...

Windows PowerShell indeed comes equipped with some powerful scripting constructs that enable it to accomplish all the tasks you're used to seeing in a scripting language.

The component in Windows that executes JScript is the Windows Script Host (WSH). When bad guys first started using JScript attachments, the scripts downloaded the malware.

Windows Script Encoder was introduced in Microsoft Script Engine 5.0 and is very simple to use. WSE is a command line utility that takes two parameters: the name of the script file and the name of ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

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.