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# Thursday, December 22, 2005

That voice of the computer from Wargames...ahh brings back memories of 1984.  As for the actual reason I mentioned it, the lovely voices of the Microsoft Agent program.  I've been messing around ALL DAY with Microsoft Agent and scripting.  Its been somewhat fun, but fairly frustrating.  I've just built a script that acts as a simple helper running on your desktop.  Not really too helpful.

http://ydns.no-ip.com/msAgentHelper.vbs.txt

This script will expect you to setup a few things:

  1. right click this file (http://ydns.no-ip.com/msAgentHelper.vbs.txt) and do a "Save target as"
  2. Rename the file to remove the ".txt" extension.
  3. Choose a location to save the file that you can remember.  Click Save.
  4. Open the folder where the file was saved.
  5. Edit the file by right-clicking and choosing Edit.
  6. Modify the top few entries to match your needs.
  7. Save and close the file.
  8. Right click the ".vbs" file, choose Properties and go to the Script tab.
  9. uncheck "Display logo..."
  10. Click OK.  Now you will have a file by the same name except a WSH extension in the same location as the vbs file. 
  11. Double click the "wsh" file.  When you run it, it should play sound if Microsoft Agent is properly installed.

This was fun to write but has little value as it is.  Trying to think of ways to make it more useful.  Perhaps some type of table of things it can do for me.

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:26:22 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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