VBS File SummaryFour known software programs (notably, Microsoft Notepad developed by Microsoft Corporation) are related to the VBS file extension. Tip: If you know of another program that can open your VBS file, you can try opening it by selecting the application from the programs listed. Wrong Version of Microsoft Notepad is InstalledIn some cases, you might have a newer (or older) version of a VBScript File file that is unsupported by your installed application version. If you do not have the proper version Microsoft Notepad (or any of the other programs listed above), you may need to try downloading a different version of it, or one of the other software applications listed above. This problem is most common when you have an older version of the software application, and your file was created by a newer version that it cannot recognize. Other Causes of VBS File Opening ProblemsAlthough you might already have Microsoft Notepad or another VBS-associated software installed on your computer, you can still encounter problems opening VBScript File files.
If you are still having problems opening VBS files, there may be other issues that are preventing you from opening these files. Occasionally you might experience a flawed software installation, which may be due to a problem encountered during the install process. This can prevent your operating system from associating your VBS file with the right software application, affecting what is known as 'file extension associations'.Sometimes, simply reinstalling Microsoft Notepad will solve your problem, properly associating your VBS with Microsoft Notepad. Other times, poor software programming on behalf of the software developer can cause problems with file associations, and you may need to contact the developer for further assistance. If all other steps fail, and you are still experiencing problems opening VBS files, it might be due to a lack of available system resources. Some versions of VBS files can require substantial resources (eg. Memory/RAM, processing power) to be properly opened by your computer.
This is quite common if your computer hardware is older, and you are using a much newer operating system.This issue can occur when your computer is having a hard time keeping up because the operating system (and other services running in the background) might be consuming too many resources for your VBS file to open. Try closing all applications on your PC before attempting to open your VBScript File. Freeing up all of the available resources on your computer provides the best environment for attempting to open your VBS file.
If you've tried all of the steps above, and your VBS file still won't open, you might be due for a hardware upgrade. In most cases, even if you have older hardware, processing power is still more than adequate for most user's applications (unless you do a lot of CPU resource-intensive work such as 3D rendering, financial / scientific modeling, or intensive multimedia work). Therefore, it's likely that your computer is lacking the necessary amount of memory (more commonly referred to as 'RAM', or random access memory) to complete the file opening task.Try upgrading your memory to see if that helps you open your VBS file.
These days, memory upgrades are quite affordable and very easy for even the casual computer user to install in their PC. As a bonus, you'll probably see a nice performance bump in other tasks carried out on your computer.
Sep 18, 2013 My way of saying that I know very little about VBS. In this instance, I needed to create and call a script from within Excel VBA that will open a Word document on a server path, and then save all my Excel files and close them. The Word doc is a file update menu for my users and has several macros in it that require Excel to be completely closed. Jun 08, 2013 VBA-Excel: Open an Existing Word Document. By SJ June 8, 2013. To open an existing Microsoft Word Document using Microsoft Excel, you need to follow the steps below. Simple – but what if you don’t want to open the same file every time? Hard coding the file name gets rather awkward. How do you open the Explorer window to select a Word.
I use VBA in Word and Excel quite a bit, but every now and then Ihave venture into VBS to run something outside of the app. My way of saying that I know very little about VBS. In this instance, I needed to create and call ascript from within Excel VBA that will open a Word document on a server path, and then save all my Excel files and close them. The Word doc is a file update menu for my users and has several macros in it that require Excel to be completely closed.Anyways, it all works - except for one small hitch. When the Word doc opens, my users will get a security warning prompt about enabling macros. There's nothing I can do to prevent this due to corporate IT policies and settings onmacro security: anything with macros must be presented with the warning so the user can specifically click Enable or not.That itself is not the problem - it's the command prompt window. It covers the macro warning.
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The script isn't finished until after the doc opens, so the cmd window hangs out, hiding the macro warning.Can I modify this VBS script so it runs without showing the command window?Ed Set objWord = CreateObject('Word.Application')Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open('Server12TrainingProgramsFileMaintenanceMoveFiles.dotm')objWord.Visible = True. I will be running an Excel macro. Part of the macro will create this script on the fly onto the user's computer and then run it. But the other part that's not shown in the script is an 'Excel detector': the macro will continue on and shut downthe app, leaving the script to run as a separate process but only after it detects the Excel app is gone.As far as launching with cscript or wscript, I really don't know the difference. I just looked at my 'sample code' block for doing this whole process and noticed the command: wshShell.Run ('cscript ' & strVBS) (where strVBS is the full file pathto the saved script). Previously, I was running my test script with the code in my first post simply with a double-click on the VBS file.I presume from what you're saying that I can replace 'cscript ' with 'wscript ' in my macro code and be fine without the command window?Ed. I will be running an Excel macro.
Part of the macro will create this script on the fly onto the user's computer and then run it. But the other part that's not shown in the script is an 'Excel detector': the macro will continue on and shut downthe app, leaving the script to run as a separate process but only after it detects the Excel app is gone.As far as launching with cscript or wscript, I really don't know the difference. I just looked at my 'sample code' block for doing this whole process and noticed the command: wshShell.Run ('cscript ' & strVBS) (where strVBS is the full file pathto the saved script). Previously, I was running my test script with the code in my first post simply with a double-click on the VBS file.I presume from what you're saying that I can replace 'cscript ' with 'wscript ' in my macro code and be fine without the command window?EdThat can all be done within the Excel Macro - no need for VBScript at all.¯(ツ)/¯.
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The macro will continue on and shut down the app, leaving the script to run as a separate process but only after it detects the Excel app is gone.That can all be done within the Excel Macro - no need for VBScript at all.I can not shut down Excel and have a process in an Excel macro continue to run. Once Excel is gone, all VBA within Excel stops dead. So I write a script and launch it - the external process continues to run within the script after Excel and itsmacros are gone.
I can open a Word dc from with an Excel macro with no problem - I've been using VBA to make Word and Excel talk to each other for over a decade now. But the macros contained in this doc can not affect the user's Excel files withoutExcel being completely closed.
So it makes no sense to put those processes in a macro that can only run in an open Excel instance.Ed.