Note that if you distribute scripts to
other machines, you??™ll need to be careful about supporting features found
only in newer releases of WSH.
Before committing to VBScript for a project, you may want to do some
research on other supported languages listed here. Due to VBScript??™s heritage
in web pages, security concerns have resulted in some limitations in the
VBScript language, such as its inability to access the clipboard or link to
external .dll files.
Given that JavaScript (which actually has nothing whatsoever to do with
Sun Microsystems??™ Java?„? programming language) was created by Netscape,
you can find a lot of background information at http://en-wikipedia.org/wiki/
Javascript. Keep in mind, however, that JScript is Microsoft??™s bastardized
version of JavaScript and therefore not exactly the same language.
The Practical Extract and Report Language (Perl) is probably the most powerful
and flexible scripting language available for WSH at the time of this
writing. It??™s traditionally very popular among the Unix crowd and has
gained tremendous popularity for its use in writing CGI programs for web
servers. Unfortunately, Windows Vista doesn??™t come with the Perl engine;
you??™ll have to obtain a separate Perl add-on module from http://www.
activestate.com. More information is available at http://www.perl.com.
Make a Startup Script
The process of making a startup script??”a script that is executed automatically
when Windows starts??”is quite simple.
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