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Thanks for the share! It's not something I'd need to use but I'm all for people sharing their scripts with the community for this stuff :)
One suggestion, you may want to look at re-writing your script to move away from the VBScript (.vbs) dependency since Microsoft is moving towards disabling and eventually removing it from Windows 11 and onward. It'll likely be disabled by default in 2027 so you have plenty of time.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/vbscript-deprecation-timelines-and-next-steps/4148301
Thanks to you for the tip, I did not know that. I've got two years to rewrite. Yaaayyy!
As much time as I've put in to sanitizing it, building a wall around it, and imaging the results, building off the backs of other's more knowledgeable than I, this is where is get off. I am not upgrading. Why upgrade to a huge advertising platform? I can't wait to see how many data points that Microsoft would be slurping up. In W10 there's something close to 5000 I've shut down so far. Wow!
I have one piece of software I use for one of my retirement businesses. I cannot find a Linux alt equal feature for feature or even close. So, I'm kind of stuck with it,