>>Thanks. I haven't run into some of these, even though I've heard about them. I fugured out how to restore the UDL link from a post I saw here combined with the research I was doing on the WSH articles for VFUG. I happened to be reading the Windows Script Host Programmers Reference shortly after hearing about the UDL problem and seeing a section on adding items to the New menu.
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>That WSH has a lot of us between a rock and a hard place. Functionality vs. security. WSH is a gaping security hole if you are connected to the internet or have some unscrupulous co-workers. It seems MS is favoring the functionality side. On isolated boxes that would not be a problem, but I seen email that doesn't have to be opened on some boxes to deliver its payload.

You mean like the "ILOVEYOU" thing? One way to deal with that would be to delete wscript.exe and cscript.exe. You'd still have all the COM functionality available from within a program. I don't particularly like that solution, however.

The only thing scripting does is potentially make it easier to wreak havoc. You could even use a DOS batch file to cause a lot of problems. I don't consider this any more dangerous than that.