A posibility would be that the win 98 machine has not yet installed the WBEM component from the setup cd, therefore not enabling WMI object creation (control panel, add/remove, windows 98 setup tab, Internet Tools, Details button)

Another would depend on which default is used for scripts, CScript.exe, or WScript.exe (echo sends to the console with cscript)

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Login script not running rightHi,

My domain is Windows 2000 based and my clients are still using for the most part Win95 and Win98.  Now  I have a login script that works great and opens up a Gui windows (wscript.echo) to inform the user of his/her login... practice stuff.

Now on the Windows 2000 professional machine it runs fine.  On windows 98 with wsh 5.1 it opens a dos looking black box and moves so fast I can't even see it.  Then closes and continues.  Not sure how to make the script open like it does properly for win 2000 prof.

any ideas...

-matt chapman

WScript.Echo maps to different means of output, depending which
script-engine runs your script. If your script is called by wscript,
WScript.Echo maps to the MsgBox-command and displays as a dialog. If your
script is run by cscript, WScript.Echo maps to a simple textline printed on
stdout.

You have to use MsgBox instead of WScript.Echo in your scripts to garantee a
dialog-box.