What is a WS Engine?

[yanqui]

I can't find a good description for this. I found a website that said that if your WS engine is not 5.5 or higher you won't be able to decode encoded script. Do I need to find an update for mine if my W98 computer has never had it updated?

 

[FredDibnah]

Give us details of the site you found this on, how your arrived at the site and why you think the above information may apply to you.

Regards,

 

[edfair]

Suspicion that they may be talking about the web browser. Maybe about IE 5.5.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[micker377]

It was probably "WSH", the "Windows Scripting Host". I don't know about "ver 5.5", I have XP that shows ver 5.1, and everything works OK.

 

[Rick998]

Yanqui,

It IS Windows Scripting Host. The current engine is v5.6.0.8825 and - for Windows 98, ME and NT 4.0 - is available for download from Microsoft at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6-249C-4A72-BFCF-FC6AF26DC390&displaylang=en.

One way to check what version of WSH you have is to save the following code as a .JS file (e.g. check-wsh-ver.js) then run it.

var Message, Title, tmp;
var vbInformation = 64;
var vbOKOnly = 0;
Message = "                           This is " + WScript.Application;
Message = Message + " v" + WScript.Version + "\n\n";
Message = Message + "(If the version shown above is NOT v5.5 ";
Message = Message + "or greater then please upgrade it.)"; 
Title = "Windows Script Host version checker";
var objAdr = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
tmp = objAdr.Popup(Message, vbInformation + vbOKOnly, Title);

Hope this helps...

Rick