Re: Allowing Approved Scripts to Run

Does your user account have "administrator" status or "limited"?

Control Panel > User Accounts

If it's not "administrator" then try changing it via another administrator level account (or the Administrator account in safe mode)

Uninstalling and reinstalling script sentry might be another option.

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Jon

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"TrickTrash" <guardclone-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:etRw6DTmGHA.2160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've been using Doug Knox's handy Restore Point Script for some time. It creates a System Restore Point in seconds without having to open XP's slow, cumbersome System Restore prog. I'd run it regularly in Tasks or with a hot key combination whenever I wanted to be sure to have an easy restore option.

Just recently it won't run, but opens in notepad, so obviously I've done something to cause this, probably a program I've installed or tweak I've forgotten.

The problem is that I can't fix this behavior.

If I check in XQDC X-Setup it tells me *.vbs files aren't associated with Notepad. I use Script Sentry to protect for this behavior & have the script approved there, plus I know it worked with this previously.

I can't permanently associate it with Wscript.exe as in the Open With dialog, the "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" box is permanently greyed out in all selections and I don't know when this became the case or what caused this. Some security setting I've forgotten about I suspect.

There's no option in the Properties dialog that will help and I don't know what else to try.

I can run it from the command line of course, but I miss the ease of use of my previous setup and the real question is to understand how to fix it even if I'm too scatterbrained to remember what may have caused the problem.

Anyone got any ideas ?

Tricktrash


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