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UPDATE 2025/09 - It seems that contrary to Microsoft's roadmap announcement some Windows 11 24H2 new installations come with the VBSCRIPT Windows Feature disabled by default. Please see our related Windows 11 24H2 troubleshooting info for more details and instructions to fix this.  Original news item from 2025/01, with updated release plan for Docklight V2.5:  As we have stepped into 2025, it's a good time to discuss our ideas for the future of Docklight and Docklight Scripting.  Docklight and Docklight Scripting have always been developed and maintained with an "it just runs" focus, carefully maintaining full compatibility and avoiding any breakage with any new release. At the same time, the software world continues to evolve or is even revolutionized by AI tools, and a newly designed Docklight today would certainly look different from our existing Windows offerings.  So let's provide some answers to some obvious questions. (And, no, I didn't ask ChatGPT to ...

UPDATED 2023-03: We now included the Visual Studio Code preset described below in the free Docklight Scripting v2.4.11 update . This also fixes the CPU load problem that came up with v2.4.5. - The original post from January, with some improvements concerning the VS Code editor integration - Let's start this new year with a great tip for anyone who writes his/her own Docklight scripts to automate things. Docklight's built-in script editor is very basic by design and we never felt we should add the weight of a fully-fledged code editor to Docklight. Instead, Docklight Scripting offers you to integrate your favorite code editor via the menu Scripting > Customize / External Editor  . Now, for many years Notepad++ has been the Docklight default and my go-to solution for any script editing. But things changed last year once I tried Visual Studio Code - I was immediately won over. One of the many benefits of Visual Studio Code is its well-documented Command Line Interface. So he...