Windows Scripting Host Command Reference

The Windows Scripting Host is a language-independent scripting host for 32-bit Windows platforms. Microsoft provides both Visual Basic Scripting Edition® and Java Script scripting engines with the Windows Scripting Host. Microsoft anticipates that other software companies will provide ActiveX™ scripting engines for other languages such as Perl, TCL, REXX, and Python.

This section contains:

About Windows Scripting Host: Conceptual topics related to Windows Scripting Host.
Running Scripts Using the Command-Based Scripting Host: Command-line server administration using CScript.
Running Scripts Using the Windows-Based Scripting Host: Command-line server administration using WScript.

This section does not contain information on:

Windows Scripting Host Programmer's Reference; see Windows Scripting Host Programmer's Reference.
Scripter's Reference; see Scripter's Reference.