Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

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re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Dan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:14:08 GMT

Did they release the script yet? I have not read anything about it.

-Dan Grosp

CEO

http://www.grosp.com

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

don.raman — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:09:08 GMT

Yes both VBScript and JScript are part of the installs.

Thanks,

Don.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Matt Ellis — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:28:09 GMT

Hi guys. What's changed? And what's happening about Vista?

Cheers

Matt

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Michael S. — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:56:05 GMT

I also like to know what's changed!

Please provide a "release note" or "version history" or "what's changed" documentation.

As far as I know it is best practice to provide such documentation. But somehow the official download page from MS doesn't provide this basic information.

/Michael

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Don Raman — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:04:37 GMT

The download contains below mentioned things:

1. All the security fixes/updates made in Windows Scripting from Windows Script 5.6.

2. The adaptive GC fix which was done in Jscript that ships with IE7. This is now available publicly on down level OS and for all hosts.

Thanks,

Don.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Kim — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:45:26 GMT

This is great to hear. I quickly upgraded to 5.7 version and for me performance of some application/site in IE6 are compatible with IE7. Great thinking of providing the good fixes in scripting to IE6 users.

Kim.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Matt Ellis — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:13:03 GMT

Cool, thanks. Is this "adaptive GC fix" the fix mentioned at http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/05/01/legacy-ie-jscript-circular-memory-leak-problem.aspx?

And is that the same as the fix for IE6 described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830555 and released as part of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933566? I can't find out what files make up this patch, so don't know if it includes the 5.7 script engines.

And I've just noticed that Vista already comes with 5.7 - is this the same one we're talking about here?

But more importantly, if this does fix the circular reference problem, can we please have a post explaining how it was fixed? I'd be very interested to hear your solution...

Cheers

Matt

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Kim — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:43:37 GMT

I don't think the circular reference problem has been fixed entirely. As they mentioned it in the blog the complete problem will be fixed in some upcoming release of IE. That's what my understanding is. I am saying this because I can still see memory leaks in some scenario. My scenario was having a JavaScript object (newly created) assigned to a DOM and that DOM object referring to the some expando of that JavaScript object. This is leaking in IE7 too. The same can be reproduced using function closure. I think in IE7 they just fixed this scenario as described in:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929874/

And yes, Windows Scripting 5.7 download is same as Vista as mentioned in the current blog.

Now that all the things are clear I would like to know when the fix for all the memory leaks (JavaScript-IE circular) will get fixed and also the solution. Please do write about that.

Thanks,

Kim.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

don.raman — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:53:26 GMT

Yes, the download contains all the fixes that has gone in Windows Vista. So whatever you get on Vista is here too.

No we haven't fixed the circular memory leak completely. I can't comment on the time line and all as of now.

But one solution that comes to my mind is somehow making sure that whenever there is a circular leak where a IE DOM is referring a JScript Object and vice-versa, if at all we can make sure that the reference count which is there in IE (which is COM based reference count) is because of an object in JScript and that it is referencing the same object IE can break it. Now, how this can be done? Maybe by having a mechanism where we store this information somehow some where and we are done. More to follow in coming months ....

Maybe an incentive to visit our blog frequently and check it out.

Thanks for such a good number of feedback on this. I would really like to know more.

Don.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

kim ajax dev — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:25:15 GMT

Nice way to tease around. But I would still like to know the solution and it seems Microsft is really taking scripting seriosuly.

Thanks,

Kim.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:28:54 GMT

Are you aware that there is something amiss with the security catalog? After installing WS5.7, Windows File Protection reports errors with the files' digital signatures and reverts all of them back to WS5.6.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Ted — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:24:08 GMT

what about other languages? (e.g. French)

What about x64 version (this doesn't install on XP x64)

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

wayne — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:29:34 GMT

Uh, yeah...I'm wonder where the official realease notes for this point upgrade are. Saying it fixes things from 5.6 that up to the vista release doesn't really cut it. I'd like to know what the "fixes" are.

Is there, in fact, any release notes?

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

dhwang — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:52:51 GMT

How do you revert back if this new 5.7 causes problem? Do I have to use use last good profile?

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

don.raman — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:25:19 GMT

One can go to "Control Panel" and remove the Scripting 5.7 using Add/Remove program functionality. At the time of installation a restore point is created. When you remove the update, the system is restored to this previous point.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

PaulChaseDempsey — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:38:23 GMT

This is an update to 5.6 web package, which has never been available for 64-bit. This update for 64-bit will appear in the next SP of the OS.

It will be about a month before other language packages are available. However, you can install the ENU package on any language. The package UI will be English, of course, but script will work normally.

We were not able to reproduce the catalog problem. We'd need to know the specific package, OS+SP level to do more.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

PaulChaseDempsey — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:16:16 GMT

Release notes for Script 5.7 can be downloaded directly from here:

"http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/f/e/ffea3abf-b55f-4924-b5a5-bde0805ad67c/Windows Script Release Notes.rtf"

Classic ASP High Jinks: Windows Script 5.7

Loser-X — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:13:53 GMT

Its been a long time since I touched any classic ASP, apart from the odd quick fix to legacy projects

Improve AJAX Performance | Download Windows Script 5.7 now

Gaurav Seth's WebLog — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:04:32 GMT

Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of

Improve AJAX Performance | Download Windows Script 5.7 now

Noticias externas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:09:45 GMT

Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Phil Mattson — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:49:45 GMT

A version of x64 Windows 2003 would be nice!

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:08:20 GMT

Reproducing the catalog problem.

0) OS: XP Pro 32-bit @ SP2

1) Download the XP version of WS5.7

2) Run installer

3) Run SFC /SCANNOW

4) Notice in the event log the reports from Windows File Protection about the unsigned WS5.7 files that it detected during the scan.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

PaulChaseDempsey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:51:05 GMT

Thanks for repro details. We've figured out the problem and will release new packages shortly.

Regular Expression optimization done in Jscript 5.7 release

JScript Blog — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:55:11 GMT

I modified my last blog many times. I was really amazed at the kind of response I got on this blog. Thanks

Classic ASP

Sandor — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:35:37 GMT

How would this update affect JScript based Classic ASP websites?

We have pretty code intensive pages and are evaluating the new script engine.

So far our benchmarks showed that the new engine is usually faster on pages with complex code.

Do you have any recommendation against updating classic asp servers?

Regards,

Sandor

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

don.raman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:28:13 GMT

I don't think we have done any improvements specific to Classic ASP pages. However you can read the release notes and see if the ASP pages are doing anything which has improved. However I would advise that it's always better to deploy the new JScript. You never know what benefits are in for you.

Thanks,

Don.

Put it on Windows Update!

Vlad — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:00:28 GMT

This is a great update and it would be even more great if you spread it to all Windows users through Windows Update. I currently cannot find it there. It does not help much the AJAX developers if they have to ask their users to download it from Microsoft's website.

Cheers,

Vlad

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

don.raman — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:37:39 GMT

Thanks Vlad.

Please have a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/09/15/automatic-update-for-windows-script-5-7-release.aspx for our side story.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Alex A — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:14:00 GMT

Don, will be a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available?

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

don.raman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:06:04 GMT

We are working on the release timeline and supported OS/platform right now. I will keep you updated once we have a final decision on this.

Thanks,

Don.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Cesar — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:11:21 GMT

After installing this none of my ASP pages now work

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Invalid Default Script Language

The default script language specified for this application is invalid.

Thank you Microsoft

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Jaiprakash — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:31:06 GMT

I tried to reproduce this issue on Windows XP, IIS 6.0, ASP classic (not ASP .net) but could not succeed. Everything works fine for me. Here are the steps I tried...

1. On XP machine (with 5.6 Scripting), created an .asp page, set up a Virtual Directory.

2. Opened the page in IE. Worked fine.

3. Installed 5.7 scripting for XP from www.microsoft.com.

4. Rebooted the machine (as it was required to

5. Opened the same .asp page in IE again. This time also it opened fine.

Could you please give us few more details like...

1. What OS you are on?

2. Which IIS you have on your machine?

3. Your app is ASP classic or ASP .net?

BTW, the same issue has been faced by different users in the past too when they just tried updating IIS or script (even 5.6) or some other related component. I am just putting two such links here wherein users have overcome this issue in different ways. Please do go through these links and see if they are of any use.

1. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1539719&SiteID=1

2. http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-iis-12/error-asp-0201-invalid-default-script-language-31394.html

JScript Performance Update for IE6 users

JScript Blog — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:11:37 GMT

Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release . We got lots of feedback on this, people

JScript Performance Update for IE6 users

Noticias externas — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:36:35 GMT

Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release . We got lots of feedback on this, people

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

sernark plywood — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:03:38 GMT

Thank you brother

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Tweak Vista — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:15:16 GMT

Yes both VBScript and JScript are part of the installs.

Thanks,

Engaging with customers.

Noticias externas — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:51:06 GMT

It's been some time that I wrote a blog. We started this blog to get some real customer feedback

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Eric — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:25:53 GMT

Now a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available? 30-01-2007

Thanks

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Eric — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:28:11 GMT

Oups Sorry

Now a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available? 30-01-2008

Thanks

Eric

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Ian — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:27:14 GMT

Is there an updated file set as mentioned in the blog (dated 27th AUgust 2007) that fixes the Windows File Protection issue? The download site still has files with a published date earlier than that. Thanks.

GC Improvements in JScript for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

JScript Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:56:53 GMT

Hello Friends, Today I am going to talk about some of the Garbage Collector improvement we have done.

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Snel lenen — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:17:24 GMT

Ian, follow this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2008/04/23/gc-improvements-in-jscript-for-internet-explorer-8-beta-1.aspx

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Carl Houseman — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:13:31 GMT

Any chance that this can be released in as a standard KB article and made available for installing via WSUS?

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

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re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Veilig lenen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:18:01 GMT

Great article, and with this amount of feedback on this script 5.7 release, it has to be a great script!

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Payrolling — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:32:03 GMT

Yes, it is a great script! It still is... But is it also in different languages? (e.g. French)

And are there any updates or better scripts in the mean time?

Getting error "Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046' Permission denied" when writing to event logs through ASP page

Discover the solutions… — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:12:52 GMT

Few days back I worked upon an issue where we were trying to write into the Events logs from classic

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

grayson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:46:17 GMT

if I want to install windows script 5.6 in vista system, how to do it?

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

GauravS — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:48:16 GMT

@grayson: Sorry, this is not a supported scenario. Is there a specific reason for which you want to install script 5.6 on a Vista machine?

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

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re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

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re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

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re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

Koi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:23:42 GMT

We currently have a mix between Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 SP4.

Our logon scripts currently map shared folder objects from AD and maps these to the users My Network Places. The code is below.

When the script is run on a Windows 2000 machine, it is processed very quickly. However on Windows XP it takes about 3 minutes. Upgrading WSH to 5.7 did not resolve the issue. Any ideas?

Set objShortcut = objWSHShell.CreateShortcut _ (strNetHood & "\" & objitem.cn & ".lnk")

objShortcut.TargetPath = objitem.uncname

objshortcut.Description = objitem.uncname

objShortcut.Save

re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

groupenerji — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:29:39 GMT

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re: Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

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