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 ...

A facility within Windows that executes VBScript and JScript, which are Microsoft's ActiveX scripting languages. Via the installation of additional scripting engines, Windows Script Host (WSH) can ...

Task Scheduler is capable of much more than just running built-in Windows 11 functions. It can also be used to launch third-party apps. For example, in lieu of Disk Cleanup, I can schedule a run using ...

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 ...

The Powershell Script application is a Windows-based program that allows network administrators to perform tasks on multiple computers at one time. You can customize the startup functions of your ...

I find myself amazed at how many IT professionals still avoid the command line. Even if you're no longer a hands-on, technical IT practitioner, you've surely got some familiarity with it. The command ...

The popularity of Windows is due in very large part to programmability. From the very beginning, Microsoft has made it easy for people to write software to do what they want with Windows and its ...

If you create Web application scripts and you want to make them available for other people to use (whether for a fee or free) then you are pretty much giving away your intellectual property. That is, ...

If you want to turn on or off Location Scripting on Windows, this post is what you need. In Windows 11/10, by default, all location scripts run. However, if you want to disable Location Scripting on ...

Script Start will provide the source code for its desktop-automation tool. Entrigue Systems, which develops the Windows logon-scripting tool Script Start, will unveil Tuesday that it is taking the ...

When you log in to the computer, if you see a message box with an error message saying Can not find script file in Windows 11 and Windows 10, then this post may be ...

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. The scripts can be used to add functionality on a Web ...