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

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I have little announcement to make today. Windows Script 5.7 which ships with different flavors of Windows® Vista is now available for Windows® 2000/XP as well as Windows® 2003 Server.

This download will install Microsoft® Windows® Script containing Visual Basic® Script Edition (VBScript.) Version 5.7, JScript® Version 5.7, Windows Script Components, Windows Script Host 5.7, and Windows Script Runtime Version 5.7.

 

Why should you care about this update ? If you ever encountered performance issues running AJAX applications (e.g. Gmail), you should absolutely consider installing this update. This update includes an updated Garbage Collector that used to previously make AJAX appliications run pretty poorly. This update is available on Vista and we are now providing this to all supported OS versions (XP, Win2K, Win2K Server). You will see noticeably better performance on your favorite AJAX applications and with more and more AJAX applications coming on line, you will be very happy you did this.

 

Below is the download link for the updates.

Download Windows Script 5.7 for Windows 2000

Download Windows Script 5.7 for Windows XP

Download Windows Script 5.7 for Windows 2003 Server

Also lot of people might be wondering what all changes has gone inside this release. A quick look at release note will give you all the detail. The release notes can be downloaded from here.

Happy downloading and enjoy all the benefits of Windows Script 5.7 on other OS too!!

Thanks,

Don Raman

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  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/08/12/

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2007
    Did they release the script yet? I have not read anything about it. -Dan Grosp CEO http://www.grosp.com

  • Anonymous
    August 12, 2007
    Yes both VBScript and JScript are part of the installs. Thanks, Don.

  • Anonymous
    August 12, 2007
    Hi guys. What's changed? And what's happening about Vista? Cheers Matt

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2007
    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

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    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

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 17, 2007
    what about other languages? (e.g. French) What about x64 version (this doesn't install on XP x64)

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2007
    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?

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2007
    How do you revert back if this new 5.7 causes problem? Do I have to use use last good profile?

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2007
    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"

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2007
    Its been a long time since I touched any classic ASP, apart from the odd quick fix to legacy projects

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2007
    Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2007
    Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2007
    A version of x64 Windows 2003 would be nice!

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2007
    Reproducing the catalog problem.

  1. OS: XP Pro 32-bit @ SP2
  2. Download the XP version of WS5.7
  3. Run installer
  4. Run SFC /SCANNOW
  5. Notice in the event log the reports from Windows File Protection about the unsigned WS5.7 files that it detected during the scan.

  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2007
    Thanks for repro details. We've figured out the problem and will release new packages shortly.

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2007
    I modified my last blog many times. I was really amazed at the kind of response I got on this blog. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2007
    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

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2007
    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

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2007
    Don, will be a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available?

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2007
    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.

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2007
    Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release . We got lots of feedback on this, people

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2007
    Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release . We got lots of feedback on this, people

  • Anonymous
    December 10, 2007
    Thank you brother

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2008
    Yes both VBScript and JScript are part of the installs. Thanks,

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2008
    It's been some time that I wrote a blog. We started this blog to get some real customer feedback

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2008
    Now a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available? 30-01-2007 Thanks

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2008
    Oups Sorry Now a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available? 30-01-2008 Thanks Eric

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    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.

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    Hello Friends, Today I am going to talk about some of the Garbage Collector improvement we have done.

  • Anonymous
    May 03, 2008
    Ian, follow this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2008/04/23/gc-improvements-in-jscript-for-internet-explorer-8-beta-1.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Any chance that this can be released in as a standard KB article and made available for installing via WSUS?

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2008
    To all visitors from The Netherlands: a translation of all the information provided here, can be found on our website. We run a website where our volunteers create and share knowledge for free (using wiki-software). The information is also available upon request by email.

  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2008
    Great article, and with this amount of feedback on this script 5.7 release, it has to be a great script!

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    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?

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2009
    Few days back I worked upon an issue where we were trying to write into the Events logs from classic

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2009
    if I want to install windows script 5.6 in vista system, how to do it?

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2009
    @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?

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2009
    <a href="http://www.sernakakademi.com"> Sernak Dil Akademisi </a>

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2009
    <a href="http://www.sernakakademi.com/"> Sernak Dil Akademisi </a>

  • Anonymous
    December 14, 2009
    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

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    Great scripts that work thank you all for your efforts best regards Jack isher

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    we use your updates regularly thank u products manager G.sari

  • Anonymous
    December 31, 2009
    http://www.celikhasir.biz thank u microsoft for great scripts ali zeybek

  • Anonymous
    December 31, 2009
    http://www.plywoodfiyatlari.com thank u very much from istanbul Jack Thomson

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2010
    This is a great windows script. I use it all the time. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2010
    i need

  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2010
    What happened to the 64 bit version of the package as it would be of great help to people that are on this flavour of the OS?

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2010
    Where are the Windows Server 2003 64-bit versions? The 32-bit versions don't install on a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003. Dejan

  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2010
    why the scripts is not compatible in widows 7 comment plsss

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2011
    I am not able to update X64 systems. there is nothing avalible to X64 system. can any one Help how to update X64 systems(2003)

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2011
    Great article, and with this amount of feedback on this script 5.7 release, it has to be a great script! www.jiletlitelfiyati.com

  • Anonymous
    August 17, 2011
    great udate for a great script, use it all the time www.celikhasirfiyatlari.com