You can find numerous resources and pointers to information on the world wide web at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/
This address contains information about the Windows Scripting Host, the languages you can use for scripting, terminology, and debugging information.
One tool you will want to have is the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) software, available at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/windowshost/
After installing WSH you can run scripts directly on your computer.
If you want to debug scripts you might find this URL to be helpful:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/debugger/
NOTE You can also execute scripts from the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser if the script is wrapped with the appropriate HTML tags. To learn how to do this, refer to the Microsoft scripting site for information on this and other ways to execute scripts. Note that you can download Internet Explorer at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/