this customer thankfully does not care what language etc we develop in just so long as it works. i presumed that WSH was installed on all windows machines.
~M

>>thanks for the suggestions, this one looks the shortest:)
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>Yes. I generally like WSH and sometimes use it over Windows API, but beware of a few WSH problems:
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>1) They require the proper WSH object to be installed in the client machine.
>2) Some companies are afraid of scripting language vulnerabilities and ban the use of WSH as a result.
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>In these case you have to resot to Windows API instead.