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How To Auto-launch VBscript with Elevated Privileges

For cases when you need to execute a VBS script (*.vbs file) as admin with elevated privileges you can try the following snippet. This can be done by running ShellExecute and setting the runas flag to run an executable...

How To Write Windows Environment Variables With VBScript

This is in continuation to the last post where we saw how to read windows environment variables using VBScript. As mentioned in the last post, we can use the following preferred methods to achieve this : Using the WSH Shell...

How To Read Windows Environment Variables With VBScript

Reading an environment variable is simple. There are a couple of methods available to do this but the main preferred ones are the below two : Using the WSH Shell object Using WMI's Win32_Environment class In the below example...

How To Load XML File into DOM Using MSXML

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) provides two methods for loading XML documents into the Document Object Model (DOM) and one method and one property for serializing that object model back into an XML stream. The load and loadXML methods parse documents into a...

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Interpreted Vs Compiled Languages

This is based on an excerpt from one of my favourite literature on VBScript and in fact,...