If you're using passwords of any type on your site, it is best to keep them random. That way they cannot be easily guessed at by intruders.

First, it's good to know a little about ASCII characters. Every character your keyboard can type is actually represented by a number. So the letter A is represented by 65. The letter Z is represented by 90. So all you need to do is generate a series of random numbers, each number between 65 and 90. That would give you a way to find the equivalent letters.

If you want to include numbers too, those are found between spots 48 and 57. I wouldn't use the spots between 57 and 65 - those are odd characters like colons.




So let's say you want to create a 7 character password that contains a random assortment of letters and numbers. You could do something like this:

This is a great little script that you can put on a friend's flash drive. It won't do any harm to their computer...it's just funny to watch. Put these 2 files in the "root" of the flash drive, cd, or any type of media/external drive. When they plug it in it will run the autorun script which then runs the shutdown script and restarts their computer! You will get a few laughs out of it...guaranteed!

To get the name of the computer/host

To create a shortcut to an url you can do as follows

If you want to create a shortcut programatically use the code below. Found somewhere on net

This script demonstrates the use of the Speech API via VBScript. Simply type in the word or phrase that you want to the computer to speak and click OK. Useful for vocalizing the results of a function or literally reading a text file to the user.

Note: To successfully run this code you MUST have the Speech API installed. The Speech API is installed during a complete Office install. If the required libraries are not present on your system, search Microsoft.com for the speech API SDK download. See this page for help on setting up Text To Speech: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902/

This was an update someone else's snippet...
VBScript is a graceful language and Windows Scripting Host cleans up after itself, so this is a compact version for simple usage - reducing code bloat is what small scripts are for.

Just my $.02...

This script demonstrates the user of a procedure that forces the currently executing script to execute under the WScript scripting host. This forces the output from WScript.Echo statements to be displayed message box dialog. This functionality may be useful in situations where the default scripting host is set to cscript.exe and/or the programmer uses a common set of code to program for wscript.exe and cscript.exe.

Typical usage would see the ForceWScript procedure called at the beginning of a script.

This script demonstrates the user of a procedure that forces the currently executing script to execute under the CScript scripting host. This allows the output from WScript.Echo statements to be displayed in a command prompt dialog in a similar way to older style batch files, making this procedure ideal for batch processing.

Typical usage would see the ForceCScript procedure called at the beginning of a script.

This is a quick and dirty function for preventing SQL Injection, the function is designed to clean any variable that will be concatenated into an SQL query. Apostrophes and Double-Quotes are changed to entities in order to ensure that encoding does not become an issue when the content is pulled back into a page. I'm looking for criticism here, I want to know if this is secure or not.

I've found it kind of complicated to strip newline chars from a file with just the commandline. This tiny piece of code does just that.

I've found it especially useful when extracting tabulated data from a grabbed site where each cell is on a different html line. This way I can pre-filter the html, remove the newlines, and insert them again at register boundaries (row end in this case), so that with just a couple more replacement from within a regex enabled text editor I can copy&paste it directly to a database.

This class illustrates mixed GUI/command line parameters passing. Any parameter may be specified in the command line. All unspecified parameters will be read using GUI dialog box.

This class uses reflection to locate option setters. Client class must contains methods setFile (to receive file names from the command line) and setOption### (to receive option ###).

(See also adapter-based implementation)

Extendable command line processor for console applications.

This script demonstrates the use of a function that allows a script to delete itself from disk. The function can be called from anywhere within the script and the script will continue to function normally (assuming the script does not further attempt to access itself on disk). Handy for homebrew uninstallation programs that require the removal of all installation files, including the setup file.

check server sessions

open internet explorer and navigate to a url

Retrieve email adresses from a given text file

List all services of a remote compute

enable remote admin settings

find external IP and external hostname with vbscript

The following ASP code will allow you to Count and Display the amount of visitors that are currently on or viewing your website.

You will have to save this ASP code into a file called 'global.asa', which must be uploaded to the root of your webserver.

convert WMI, date - time values

Send a Mail using Lotus Notes

Get all members of an Exchange Distribution List, even if the distribution list itself contains other distribution lists

Shutsdown, PowerOff, LogOff, Restarts a machine.

function to remove a computer from a domai

Access a print server, get information about all printers on the server,
and build an Excel spreadsheet with the information. You must have power
user or Administrator rights to the print server, and need to have
Microsoft Excel installed on the PC you are running this from.

This subroutine will rename the log file once it gets to be
larger than 10k. It renames it to ArchiveLog_(Date).txt, so
it is easy to track down a certain day.

Usage: cscript //nologo RandPass.vbs [password_length]|[?] [complexity] [uniqueness]

This script will generate a random password of X length. It will build the password from seed 'strings of increasing complexity.
1 - simple is the lower case alphabet, numbers 2-9 and !@#$%^&*() all randomly interspersed.
2 - complex is the same as the previous with the addition of UPPER case letters.
3 - insane is the same as the previous with the additional symbols of ,./?>;'[]}{\|~`:
The numbers 0 and 1 have been removed to avoid confusion with the letters O and L.

password_length should be a number between 4 and 127, although a limit of 14 is recommended for Win9x clients. Default is 7
complexity must be 1,2 or 3
uniqueness value of 0 will make each password character unique. A value of 1 [default] will allow repeated characters.

If you don't pass values at the command prompt, you will be prompted for each value.

Create a random password:


usage: CreatePasswd( 8,True,False)

Get the computer domain with wmi

Get computername with wmi

Make a new directory

terminate a named process on computers in a given IP address range

check if host is pingable or not

This small script prompts you for a user name or gets it from the command line and shows you information about a user including what groups they are in.

Check the attributes of a file or folde

Retrieve information about a file

Display all ou's in an active directory environement

this function returns the aggregated size
of all files in a directory and its subdirectories

Checks to see if a file or folder exists
The fFile variable determines whether you're
looking for a File (True) or Folder(False)
The strName variable holds the fully qualified
path you're looking For

Create a backup, restore a backup, delete a Backup from IIS

mySizeMemory:this function just formats the output the way I like Input integer in Bytes, outputs easily human readable format

mySizeDisk: this function just formats the output the way I like
Input integer in Bytes, outputs easily human readable format

check if a string is a valid domain ex.: dsc-services.be

Automated offline backup for Exchange server.
Requires ROBOCOPY from NTRK or other copy utility.
Requires manual adjustments

KillProc will do a search of all the current processes and kill all that
match the name given. If the process name is misspelled, KillProc would
kill itself, based on the match. The 'find /v /i "KillProc"' part of the
search prevents KillProc from killing the CMD window it is running in.

Requires NT Resourcekit

Deletes all files and folders from a directory, including read-only and
hidden files and folders. DelAll starts in the directory you tell it,
removes all read-only and hidden attributes from all the files, removes
all of the subfolders and then all files therein. When DelAll is done,
you will be left in the directory from which you called DelAll. The
directory that you want cleaned will not be deleted.

Builds a batch file to create hidden shares for a bunch of sub-directories (eg, User shares)

Change wins settings for all nics

Archief event log enteries

Add users and groups to all machines in a domai

Kill a running program on a wmi enabled compute

Get Bios info from wmi enabled machines

Get all the properties of active directory

Search Active directory and give info in retur

Create a text file with all the folders on your machine

Arguments in vbscript

Check if a user is logged in or not

Validating the email address

If you're asking your users to submit a password of 6-12 characters, you want to make sure it is done properly and without any special characters which could compromise your system.

To do this, you would want to use regular expressions

This script shows you how a script can be self modifying, like viruses. It is a warning about the possibilities of new macro viruses

Converts Hex values to Decimal, useful for reading & converting values from the registry.

A painfully simple method of viewing the contents of an ASP script via an ASP script.

Displays the hex value for an HTML color given the decimal RGB values. Uses Internet Explorer to show the hex value in the color itself.

Convert a decimal symbol to a binary

Command Line Calculato