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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 ...

VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.

Whether you use Windows 11 or 10 on your computer, you must change the execution policy to run a script with PowerShell. To ...

If you're running Windows and are having troubles with apps, scripts or macros this week, it could be because of Microsoft's August security updates. Microsoft says ...

Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows ...

Macros package a series of processes into a single script, enabling you to execute lengthy or monotonous tasks in just a few clicks. Previous editions of PowerPoint, and other Office products, used ...

I've been treating Excel like a glorified calculator for most of my life. Sure, formulas made doing more complex calculations easier and automatically updated data, and there are free Excel templates ...

An automatic update among last week's Patch Tuesday security fixes ended up wreaking havoc with existing applications sporting Visual Basic code, borking them for days until an optional update to fix ...