Windows 7 has no script engine for file extension ".vbs"

[OfficeAnimal]

I have just installed PrimalScript 2015 and written this very complex script file:

'==============================
Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
Dim My_Message

My_Message = "Hello World"
MsgBox My_Message
'==============================

When I try to run this I get:

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".vbs".
Execution time: < 1 second
Exit code: 1 , 0001h

I have read a dozen solutions on the Net dating from the turn of the century.
It seems to be a problem no-one complains about these days.
Just the same, it happened to me!

What does one do these days?

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[guitarzan]

How are you running your script? By double-clicking the .vbs file, or some other way?

A quick search points to .VBS files not being accociated with the right program. Do a right-click over your script and choose "Open With...". The first option should be Microsoft Windows Based Script Host. Is it set to something else?

 

[OfficeAnimal]

I have tried the double-click way and also by running in the IDE (PrimalScript 2015). No luck!

FTR: These are the extra software options I get to open the file

If I run 'assoc' on a command line as administrator I get the line ".vbs=VBSFile".


"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[strongm]

Certainly looks like a deeply routed association problem (rather than a superficial one). Try the vbs reg fix file found linked here (site claims this is just for W7, but should work for W8/8.1 as well; don't know for certain about W10).

This may disassociate PrimalScript, though.

 

[OfficeAnimal]

For the record:

I now have a system which is running VBScript.

What did it for me?

1. From command line (run as administrator) "regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\vbscript.dll"
2. Locate "%windir%\inf\wsh.inf (on Windows 7 this equates to C:\Windows\inf\wsh.inf")
--> right click --> Install
3. If you don't have wsh.inf (as I didn't) download a copy to the appropriate folder and proceed.


My thanks again to those who offered assistance.
Hope this helps some other poor soul

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[xwb]

You can run it with either cscript or wscript. Depends on whether you want a message box on every WScript.echo.