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Claude suggested all the things I half remembered from back in the day but the real reason was Microsoft disabled vbscript in windows 11 24H2 but that wasn’t even on its radar
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In the thread “A sufficiently detailed spec is code”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: Failed to diagnose disabled vbscript in Windows 11 24H2.
… I am using Claude pretty heavily but there are some problems it is awful at, e.g I had a crusty old classic ASP website to resuscitate this week and it would not start. Claude suggested all the things I half remembered from back in the day but the real reason was Microsoft disabled vbscript in windows 11 24H2 but that wasn’t even on its radar. I have to remind myself that it’s a fancy xerox machine because it does a damn good job of pretending otherwise.