Definitely a Newbie--Need an example
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From: Paul Randall on 14 Aug 2010 16:03 "Todd Vargo" <tlvargo(a)sbcglobal.netz> wrote in message news:i421tv$jae$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... -snip- > I agree 100% with unhiding file extensions. That is the first thing I do > on any machine I have control. I've unsuccessfully toyed with vbscripts to set up new systems to my liking, with things like unhiding file extensions, changes to toolbars, status bar & explorer bar, folder view, etc. There are IE internet options that would also like to configure through VBScript. Have you been successful with scripting such changes, or do you do it manually? -Paul Randall
From: Hz on 14 Aug 2010 17:06 On 2010-08-10 13:13, wolf_tracks(a)invalid.com wrote: > I'm told VBS comes with MS OSes, and that if I had an example script of > a vbs program, I could see how it works by double clicking on the file. > Does someone have a simple program that I could try that on? Maybe > something that simply prints some text or prints the results of a simple > calculation. I'm using Win 7. I'm using SciTE. It's free and does what I want in VBScript, javascript and c++. http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html Open it, type this in, save it as a VBScript file (blah.vbs) and hit F5 to run it: WScript.Echo "Hello World" Maybe you'll need to make sure CScript is the one parsing it so you don't get those annoying WScript popups. I'm using the "lite" (A single file executable called Sc1) version of SciTE. I have configured it to use my fav font: Consolas, and I have tweaked some of the syntax highlighting colors. Other than that it is stock.
From: Stefan Kanthak on 14 Aug 2010 17:27 "Paul Randall" <paulr901(a)cableone.net> wrote: > > "Todd Vargo" <tlvargo(a)sbcglobal.netz> wrote in message > news:i421tv$jae$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > -snip- > >> I agree 100% with unhiding file extensions. That is the first thing I do >> on any machine I have control. > > I've unsuccessfully toyed with vbscripts to set up new systems to my liking, > with things like unhiding file extensions, changes to toolbars, status bar & > explorer bar, folder view, etc. There are IE internet options that would > also like to configure through VBScript. > > Have you been successful with scripting such changes, or do you do it > manually? Always via unattended setup, scripted with *.INF (the NATIVE method for ANY setup on Windows since 15 years now). Stefan
From: Paul Randall on 14 Aug 2010 21:19 "Stefan Kanthak" <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message news:%231Pk5d$OLHA.5644(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > "Paul Randall" <paulr901(a)cableone.net> wrote: >> >> "Todd Vargo" <tlvargo(a)sbcglobal.netz> wrote in message >> news:i421tv$jae$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> >> -snip- >> >>> I agree 100% with unhiding file extensions. That is the first thing I do >>> on any machine I have control. >> >> I've unsuccessfully toyed with vbscripts to set up new systems to my >> liking, >> with things like unhiding file extensions, changes to toolbars, status >> bar & >> explorer bar, folder view, etc. There are IE internet options that would >> also like to configure through VBScript. >> >> Have you been successful with scripting such changes, or do you do it >> manually? > > Always via unattended setup, scripted with *.INF (the NATIVE method > for ANY setup on Windows since 15 years now). Thanks for the advice, Stefan I'm looking for a way to do this on computers that come with the OS preinstalled which typically having an unattended way to restore the system to 'out of the box' condition, such as a restore partition or DVD or with a user-created Ghost image made prior to the computer's first boot up. It is this restored and booted system that I want to customize to my liking. I've played with that 'out of the box' image for some 2005-era Compaq laptops with WXP-Home. HP/Compaq includes a huge number of Python scripts which I assume are used to set things up during the first boot, but I think it would be easier for me to learn how to make the registry changes needed for my customized system than to learn how to change the first-boot process. -Paul Randall
From: wolf_tracks on 15 Aug 2010 00:49
OK,I've been gone for 3 days, and apparently gotten over the "local disk" problem. I have Help file download with Help open. If I print all of VBScript, how many pages am I going to get? 400? 20? Yikes, I see navigation to web site was canceled. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39� 15' 7" N, 121� 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person over a lifetime: Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars -- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/> |