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Please don't deprecate VBScript
Hello, I am new to the forum. I came here for one specific reason. I found out that Microsoft is deprecating VBScript and I have some points to make regarding this decision and I think they are pretty compelling. Firstly, I am a software engineer today and I have VBScript to thank for that. If it wasn't for VBScript, I would not have gotten interested in programming. It provides an easy way for new programmers to experiment with notepad or another simple text editor to create almost anything (as long as it's simple enough). See, a lot of people don't realize that VBScript is far more than just a scripting engine for utilitarian usage. When coupled with HTA files, it becomes something that can even make true games and apps. A lot of IT professionals don't know this, but you can create pretty advanced GUIs with it using HTA. You can think of it kind of like a web canvas that works in IE. It's a lot like electron is today. With electron, you build desktop apps using JS; that's exactly what HTA is coupled with VBScript. It's much more powerful than a lot of people give it credit for. You can make nice apps and games without downloading any kind of IDE. It provides a simple learning environment that teaches about programming (or allows for true app development using HTA). It's useful in a corporate sense for making custom interfaces for kiosks or otherwise. You can make installers or configuration interfaces. (Sort of like your own control panel applets.) Useful for IT professionals that want to have custom configuration software for their specific needs, but don't know how to program in much more advanced languages. A ton of old batch files rely on it in order to function. Once it's removed, these batch files will no longer work and there would be no easy way to get them working again. Honestly, I believe batch files are ugly, but so many people (especially IT professionals) need them. If we're going to leave batch files in place, then we should also leave VBScript alone. Honestly, I think batch files should be the first thing to go in the future - totally not VBScript. Cause batch files are a big problem and almost everything they do can be done in PowerShell. The problem is that isn't true for VBScript. VBScript needs to exist because it can do things that both batch files AND PowerShell can't. It's tiny in size. I don't see how removing it really gains any space at all. If it is an issue, then please just remove the wscript.exe and cscript.exe components, but leave vbscript.dll and mshta.exe. Maybe it's not about size, but rather encouraging the use of PowerShell instead because of increased security. I understand that. In that case, removing wscript.exe and cscript.exe, but not mshta.exe or vbscript.dll ensures that people won't be able to use VBScript for utilitarian purposes anymore (because that's what that thing is for - running scripts that perform system functions on windows). Whereas mshta.exe is just a GUI type framework for VBScript with limited system functions (because it's running in a web browser after all). It's secure, cause unlike wscript, it runs in a headless browser window. Of course, maybe not perfectly secure, but good enough for what it does. It's extensible - using COM. I was actually able to make my own GUI engine for it using VB6. I called it wshshell.exe. You could include that in your script and then build GUIs without using the mshta.exe. This provided actual native windows GUIs without any sort of browser component. Anyway, that's my point. There are so many worse things in windows that could be removed, but removing VBScript makes no sense and is very problematic for a lot of IT people. If VBScript needs to go and Microsoft decides to do it anyway, then I'd like to pose this: Note to MS - We need a programming/scripting language that's built into windows. It should have an entry in the start menu. It should be tailored towards beginners or IT professionals. It should have powerful access to the Windows API and the ability to create GUIs easily in code (without the need for any fancy IDE). Maybe it could have a scintilla based coding environment, but nothing too big. It needs to be kept small if it's going to ship with every copy of Windows. You want it to be a very simple language; even easier to learn than Python. I think using something like lua would be ideal. It's very very small (less than 1MB) and is certainly powerful enough. You would need to include libraries to interface with the Windows API cause lua currently doesn't have enough of that, but it would still be very small. A scintilla based coding environment is also very small. I checked and scintilla's DLL is only 1.7 MB. Especially if you make the included programming language such that it's very Windows centric. This would be a very clever way to capture new programmers into the Windows ecosystem. See, the problem for Microsoft is that most programmers have moved over to open source operating systems and languages like Python. This is a major problem for Microsoft. If you want to get new programmers interested in coding on the Windows platform, then something like this HAS to be done. I honestly wish I wash in charge of Microsoft because I know I could fix your trajectory. If VBScript has to be done away with, then this idea is necessary. This is not written by any AI. It's all 100% handwritten by me. You can see this matters a lot to me.
My Wifi Adapter had Suddenly Disappeared
I have Windows 11 on a Dell Inspiron laptop. All of a sudden my Wifi adapter is gone. It was working fine last night and when I woke it up this morning, no Wifi adapter available, only Bluetooth. I have been using a Qualcomm adapter for years without any problems. I have searched Device Manager and no wireless adapters there, it's listed in the program list in Control Panel. I had uninstalled and reinstalled it, no change. Any suggestions/comments on how to get it back will be much appreciated. Thank you.
Windows 11 is no longer activated after a BIOS update and cannot be reactivated
After a BIOS update, my Windows 11 Pro is no longer activated, and I can't reactivate it using the troubleshooter either, as the license apparently can no longer be found in my Microsoft account. Unfortunately, I can’t remember whether I activated Windows with a product key or via a Windows 7 Pro upgrade. Is there a way to reactivate my Windows 11 without having to buy a new copy of Windows 11? It was activated before the BIOS update. No Hardware Change.
Request for missing critical feature: RWBG subpixel layout support for text rendering / ClearType
Hello! Monitors with WOLED panels mostly with RWBG (but also other non-RGB too) subpixel layout are rapidly becoming widespread as they became affordable lately. Mobile OS's have already proven that producing perfect-to-the-eye, artifact-free text rendering / antialiasing on various OLED panels is a totally solved problem already. Current Windows ClearType / text rendering solutions however still fail at this with very unacceptable results. (This is common knowledge all over the internet, I won't post various technical evidence here but you can just look it up easily) Partial 3rd party solutions exist, but are mostly only a band-aid and never produce 100% coverage for all productivity scenarios and never come without side-effects. Thus we now need the official, system deep integrated solution for this. When can you ship this in a critical update with in-advance schedule?Request for missing critical feature: RWBG subpixel layout support for text rendering / ClearType
Hello! Monitors with WOLED panels mostly with RWBG (but also other non-RGB too) subpixel layout are rapidly becoming widespread as they became affordable lately. Mobile OS's have already proven that producing perfect-to-the-eye, artifact-free text rendering / antialiasing on various OLED panels is a totally solved problem already. Current Windows ClearType / text rendering solutions however still fail at this with very unacceptable results. (This is common knowledge all over the internet, I won't post various technical evidence here but you can just look it up easily) Partial 3rd party solutions exist, but are mostly only a band-aid and never produce 100% coverage for all productivity scenarios and never come without side-effects. Thus we now need the official, system deep integrated solution for this. When can you ship this in a critical update with in-advance schedule?
2026年に安全に youtube mp3 ダウンロード するおすすめの方法は？
大学の講義をYouTubeで視聴しているのですが、通勤中やオフラインでも聞きたいので、音声だけを保存したいと思っています。そこで youtube mp3 ダウンロード の良い方法を探しています。 いくつかオンラインサイトを試しましたが、広告が多かったり、安全性が少し心配でした。2026年現在、WindowsやMacで安全に youtube mp3 ダウンロード できるおすすめの方法やツールはありますか？できれば高音質で保存できる方法が知りたいです。コマンドラインツール（yt-dlpなど）や安全なデスクトップソフト、または信頼できるサイトがあれば教えていただけると助かります。よろしくお願いします！How to completely reinstall windows 11 from usb for downgrade
Windows 11 25H2 but i don't like it. Some recent updates the system feels slower and some of my apps are not working properly. Because of this, I want to completely reinstall windows 11 from usb and possibly downgrading to an earlier version. The problem is that I'm not very familiar with the correct steps for doing a full reinstall from a USB drive. I know that I probably need to create a Windows 11 bootable USB first, then boot the computer from it and reinstall the system, but I’m not sure how the downgrade part works or if there are any special settings I should change in BIOS/UEFI. Has anyone here completely reinstalled Windows 11 from USB for downgrade to an older version or build?
Can Windows 11 directly use PNG images with transparent channels as wallpapers?
When attempting to set a company logo and text (.png format, containing an alpha channel) directly as the desktop wallpaper, I found that Windows 11 automatically fills the transparent parts with a certain background color and cannot preserve the transparency effect. Although there are third-party software solutions available online that can achieve this functionality, I would prefer a built-in system solution.Does the Phone Link app in Windows 11 now allow opening apps without unlocking the phone?
A few years ago, Microsoft removed the ability to open apps without unlocking the phone in the "Phone Link" feature. Yesterday, I discovered that this feature has become effective again after enabling a specific setting (opening apps without unlocking). Six months ago, this setting option was still missing. I would like to confirm whether this is a newly reintroduced feature or one enabled by default, as well as the specific location and function of the related setting.
