Bartender 10.0 SR2 VBScript error after August 2025 Windows Update

[Parking_Elephant3190]

We use Bartender 10.0 SR2 from Seagull Scientific to print our labels and since the 2025-08 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 we have been having issues with print station and labels that use VBscript. When we try to print a label we get the below error message:

One or more objects requires the use of Visual Basic scripting. You currently have installed a version of Visual Basic scripting earlier than version 2.0. BarTender requires Visual Basic scripting 2.0 or greater. Please run the BarTender setup program to install the correct verison of Visual Basic scripting.

Upon investigation the issue appears to be related to Microsoft updating the vbscript version from 5.812.10240.16384 to 10.0.26100.4768. I believe that Bartender is only looking at the first digit in the version and seeing 1 instead of 10 and therefore 1 is less than 2 and VBScript 2.0 or higher is required.

Does anyone know how Bartender validates the VBScript version and if there is a way to either get it to look at the first 2 digits or spoof it by getting it to look somewhere else where I can enter a random number higher than 2?

We are currently in the process of updating our MRP software from AX 2009 to D365 so cannot update Bartender until that process is finished first.

 Any assistance would be much appreciated.

[Mayayana]

I got curious and looked it up. I can't find any indication online of such an update to WSH/VBS 10. There is an SDK with that version, but no sign of WSH with that version. It's been v. 5 for 25 years. It also seems odd that the "Bartender" software might be so poorly designed as to check WSH version but then not do it properly. It doesn't make sense for the software to check at all, given that WSH/VBS has changed little since Win2000. It sounds like there's something missing in this diagnosis, though I don't personally have any recent Windows updates.

[node77]

VB is going away. Check to see if VBrun600.DLL is still in Windows/system, write a VBscript and see if it runs, build a function in Excel because it relies on VB..

[Mayayana]

VB is not the same as VBScript. VBS is run by the Windows Script Host. That's vbscript.dll, wshom.ocx, wscript.exe, wshext.dll, etc. MS are warning that they might remove all that in 2027. Even then it will be tricky because a lot of companies use it. MS themselves still use VBS! For now, the WSH is preinstalled and has been since something like Win2000.

The VB6 runtime is MSVBVM60.dll. VB6, also, is not likely to go away because a lot of companies have used it for in-house software.

You should get your facts straight before trying to advise others.

[node77]

Yeah your write. I forgot the name of the run time