Windows Scripting Host

The Windows Scripting Host (WSH) consists of two tools, cscript.exe for command-line scripts and wscript.exe for UI scripts, and executes Visual Basic scripts (though it doesn’t care about the extension). WSH operates with regular user privileges, not admin privileges.

An example VBScript:

Dim message                ' Create the variable message
message = "Welcome to THM" ' Set the variable message
MsgBox message             ' Display message using a pop-up dialog

Executing a program requires creating a “shell” object:

Set shell = WScript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
 
' Note the space after calc.exe! This is required because of
' some weird interactions between wscript.exe/cscript.exe and
' the VB runtime. Alternately, TRIPLE double quotes can be
' used instead.
shell.Run("C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe " & WScript.ScriptFullName),0,True
 
' Alternate way to call calc.exe.
shell.Run("""C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe""" & WScript.ScriptFullName),0,True

It appears that recent versions of Windows may severely limit which binaries can be called from the wscript.Shell object; calc.exe works, but pretty much nothing else does.