Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".vbs"

windows-7 command-line script file-extension vbscript

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Let's try this first.

Open an elevated Command Prompt window. To do so, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. Type the following command in the Command Prompt window, and press ENTER.

regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\vbscript.dll

You should see the following message:

DllRegisterServer in vbscript.dll succeeded.

Now see if the problem persists.

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Chris0089

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Chris0089 over 1 year

I keep getting it in command prompt, any idea why and how I may resolve the issue?

Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit
- JJ_Australia almost 14 years
  
  Operating System?
- Vaijnath Polsane over 13 years
  
  try running it this way cscript sript.vbs if there is a different error please post that one too.
- goblinbox over 12 years
  
  Did this start after you installed some software? If so, try reinstalling it.
- Joe Larson over 10 years
  
  this is a similar question to superuser.com/questions/223728/… There are other answers in that thread that are not mentioned here.
Bat_Programmer over 7 years

Hi, I don't see any wsh.inf file. What could I do in this scenario?
ojchase almost 3 years

File associations is a good guess. In my case it was that Notepad++ was trying to handle .js files.