Comments on: Error “There Is No Script Engine for File Extension” When Running .Vbs Files

By: Lawrence Ward

Lawrence Ward — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:26:58 +0000

@Dan E.
i had same problem, and it occurred due to me having Notepad++ as default association for .vbs files. so maybe you have some program which is taking that association.

you can see by opening
explorer > tools > folder options… > file types

By: Dan E.

Dan E. — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:15:25 +0000

Did everything listed above and I still get the error ” There is no script engine for file extension “.vbs” Now what

By: Martin Sarsini

Martin Sarsini — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:40:27 +0000

Thank you, sometimes Windows messages are too much generic and not at all user friendly.

By: Kapil

Kapil — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:26:56 +0000

Thanks a lot…
That was helpful indeed!