>As for loading a 4 mb runtime, I don't see the big deal there. Even if you used MTS, you still think the overhead would be a killer? I could not see running a website, either one that is internal or open to the rest of the world with anything less than 1gb of RAM. Setting WSH aside, everything else in the Windows World is so damn memory intensive.

My concern isn't for the memory footprint but for the overhead of loading it over and over in Web applications. It's a large runtime and loading it over and over takes up a lot of machine resources.

Again, for some low impact things you do for administration this isn't going to matter. But trying to write file output this way for example? I don't think so...

I'm glad it's there though, especially for the admin tasks like creating shortcuts and managiing the Explorer shell in general - these things are more than handy for manual install programs/scripts, which is becoming increasingly important for the complex applications have to built with all of the different components that are required and installed.

Like you say - right tool for the job is the key.

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