>>>You'll have to download windows scripting host for '98.
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>>Do you know what products reliably install WSH?
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>>It is kind of hit-and-miss here, too. I have been unable to use it much because some of my apps are installed outside of my domain in other NT-secure domains, where I cannot get admins to install WSH (they are not supposed to install anything unapproved).
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>>For example, does IE5 install it, or Win2K, or maybe Win98SE?
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The only things that guarentee WSH 2.0 are Win2K or the current download from the MS scripting site. Win98 included it, but its installation could be intentionally blocked, as could optional installation via IE or the NAT 4 option pack.

>Win2k does it, Bruce. I think Win98SE as well. However, I believe that IE5 doesn't. From what I recall, if the system doesn't have it, and you're running IE 5, then you need to unistall IE 5, install IE 4, then re-install IE 5. It comes with IE 4. Of course, given the above, it'd be a lot easier just to do an install from the files at the MS site. One of the files you can check for is the wscript.exe file in the windows directory. There's also cscript.exe (which provides the console compliment to wscript.exe). While it's not a 100% reliable indication, the presence of this file can be used as an indicator. If it's not present, then WSH hasn't been installed. If it is, then the registry can be used to confirm its presence. I think just looking for the a key with the .vbs extension under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, might be next or looking in the SYSTEM directory for VBSCRIPT.DLL.