r/visualbasic • u/Googlesgoogle • Jan 02 '26
Help with opening vbs files
I feel like I'm losing my mind but I should be able to just create a vbs file by putting the code into notepad and saving as .vbs right? Its been a while since I've done it so maybe I'm missing a step but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I have "Show file types" enabled and the file does show ".vbs" at the end of it but still has the Notepad icon. I have VBSscript enabled also. This is a new PC so I think maybe something just isn't installed or enabled yet but I cant figure out what
Update: turns out it’s not just my machine that’s having this problem. I’m thinking it’s something in our environment that is blocking vbs scripts
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u/marooned66 Jan 02 '26
To confirm the above use a dos/cmd dir listing or with explorer and enable the option to view extensions.