Go to www.microsoft.com/downloads and search for Windows Scripting Host 5.6 and install it. See if that fixes your issue.
----- Original Message ----- From: David To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Wscript.shell cannot be created - any ideas? Windows XP PRO, 32Bit, all updates installed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Bishop To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:31 AM Subject: Re: Wscript.shell cannot be created - any ideas? What operating system are you on? ----- Original Message ----- From: David To: Scripting List WE Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 4:30 PM Subject: Wscript.shell cannot be created - any ideas? I hav, a couple of times the last week, pointed out some trouble I am experiencing with several scripts, loaded under window-eyes. This has been done on the main list. I decided to take it all over at this list, hoping someone could get an idea, what could be the trouble of mine, particularly, with the newest discovery of today: In a lot of cases, when trying to run several of the scripts from SC, GWToolkit, Install packages, SecondGlass etc, I get an error message. What I realized today, is that all of them tell that the object WScript.Shell, cannot be created. I decided to give this a very simple try, hence created a one-line script reading as follows, and saving it as test.vbs. Upon trying to run it I got the below quoted error message; quite similar to the one I get when trying to run SecondGlass or the similar: ---The test.vbs script reads:---- Dim shellObj : Set shellObj = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") ------ ---Here is the resulting error message--- Windows Script Host Script: E:\Scripts\test.vbs Line: 1 Char: 16 Error: ActiveX component can't create object: 'WScript.Shell' Code: 800A01AD Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error OK ------ Could it be, that any scripting host file - the one that holds the WScript object - would be corrupted, or missing on my system? From the Error message, quoted above, I get a feeling of some activeX missing, but what do I know....? :) Ok, this trouble started about a week or two ago, so most truly, we would be talking a corrupt file? Maybe I am totally off track, but just wondered, since this happened all that certain, back then. In case, which file would be the one to check? Is it possible to reinstall the VBS engine under Win XP Pro, without reinstalling the whole operating system? Thanks for all ideas, and feedback!
