



In fact, the first chapter this Scripting Guy ever drafted for what became the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide was a chapter on managing event logs. As a result, this Scripting Guy was discouraged from using WMI or ADSI instead, he was urged to simply use VBScript as a way to call command-line tools. Back when one of the Scripting Guys first started here at Microsoft many people thought WMI and ADSI were way too hard for script writers to use. Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get the command window to stay open after running a tool like Ping or Ipconfig?
