Trials & Tribulations of running windows scripts in Vista

Posted by: Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., on 23 Sep 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I have a client with a legacy VB6 app which we occasionally tweak. It has an exe and many DLLs. Over the years I graduated from using a batch file to a script (WSF) file to let them pull updates. The script file checks the date of the local version of the file against the date of the files on the server. If any are newer, then the script copies the file down and unregisters then re-registers the DLL. Its been a great solution for many many years. Until they started getting new machines with Vista...

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