With each new Windows OS release, the command prompt gets further away from the user. Oracle still ships most of its main server utilities as command-line utility programs, so it's becoming ...

What does Windows Script Host actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

* Windows Scripting Host (WSH) is the scripting engine that creates an environment upon which scripts can execute on a Windows system.

The component in Windows that executes JScript is the Windows Script Host (WSH). When bad guys first started using JScript attachments, the scripts downloaded the malware.

Liou said that script viruses written on programs such as VBScript and JavaScript make use of Microsoft's Windows Scripting Host -- available on Windows 98 and 2000 -- to activate themselves and ...

Those of us that have suffered through the Windows Script Host era, and glued together Windows command-line tools can now rejoice in something that is powerful.