Windows 7 cscript not working

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When suddenly, after closing and opening the console again, this error appears in a popup when trying to execute the same previous command. I've seen this related topic and, although that's about windows , the proposed solution works.

But my windows server is a 64 bits machine and before I had this problem the command was perfectly working. What happened? Would it be exactly the same to solve the problem with the full path pointing at system32 although my system runs over 64 bits? For me, I changed out the source path for cscript to:. Basically cscript won't run unless you launch a 32bit version of the command line interpreter. Don't ask me why Redmond puts the 32bit one in the syswow64 folder. From 1. I don't post it because 1.

So, what is wrong? It seems to me that would require active effort to counter the default behaviour of the installer, for seemingly no reason.

I doubt this affects the process at all, but it seems pointless, not to mention semantically incorrect. Learn more. Asked 9 years ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed 24k times. The code i'm using to call. Javier Chauvin Javier Chauvin 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. It must be a typo or something. It works fine when I try it. Did not work, searching in the web found the link in my answer.

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We can't be everywhere at once we know—shocking! The Microsoft Scripting Guys 0 3. Sign in to vote. Hi Cscript on my Windows 7 x64bit machine stopped working. Thanks in advance, Vishnu. Friday, January 7, AM. Saturday, January 22, PM. No, this is not the case. I am very sure that I am calling the right CScript. Regards, Vishnu.

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