Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

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 ...

Scripting in Windows has taken different shapes over the years. Many administrators started by creating DOS batch files to help perform simple tasks repetitively and without errors. Today ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Windows Script Host (WSH), the bit that runs VBScripts, is capable of remote scripting. At least, the latest version (5.6) is capable of it, and that version is available for everything from Windows ...

Our series on managing Windows networks using scripts continues.

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Nearly two years ago, we introduced the hard drive janitor, a Windows script that deletes files older than a set number of days in a folder you define. Today, the Janitor script gets a much-needed ...