Enterprise Server Strategies for the CIOAs we discussed in an earlier column, Wscript.Shell represents the local execution environment: the Registry, shortcuts, environment variables such as TMP and other aspects of the Shell. You'll use this object to find out more about the environment, to read from or write to the Registry, send keystrokes to an application or even to record what your scripts did in Event Log entries. .
Now, let's look at how to read the Registry and record the value of a key in the Event Viewer.
Scripting School: Tuning the environment with
WshShell
- Introduction
- Contents of WshShell
- Viewing and editing the Registry
- Reading and writing to the Registry
- Recording the change
- Summary
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