Vista - Calling Executable from VBScript

I wrote a script to gather information about the current user logged
into the computer. I need to get the computer SID, and have only had
accurate results from calling PSGetSID. How can I call PSGetSID with
out opening up a shell and write the output to a text file. Here is
my first try at this, which flashes up a empty shell, (contains only
part of the code of the entire script):

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCommand = localpath & "H:\psgetsid.exe " & strComputer
Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
Do While Not objExecObject.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
strText = objExecObject.StdOut.ReadAll()
loop
objTextFile.WriteLine("Computer SID: " & VbTab & VbTab & strText)
objTextFile.Close

"sweetsilver99" <edvoroznak@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:55f04b33-8fac-4950-914e-b2bb661b3e85@xxxxxxHave a look at this example published by the Scripting Guy:
How Can I Modify the Output of the Ping Command -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...6/hey0817.mspx

On Nov 4, 9:06*am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@xxxxxx> wrote:That almost does what I want I just do not want a shell, empty or not,
to not pop open. I found this following information maybe this will
work:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...610uaref89.htm

Note: The "0" parameter in the following oshell.run commands is used
to hide the
' shell-created DOS command window. The "true" parameter means
to halt script
' execution until the called program finishes and returns
control.

rc = oshell.run("kumpping", 0, true)
if rc <> 0 then
wscript.echo "Status from kumpping is " & rc
wscript.echo "Verify that the Universal Agent API Data Provider is
active. Exiting..."
wscript.quit
end if

"sweetsilver99" <edvoroznak@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:b61913b6-12b7-4cdb-81ba-0420ee805ce9@xxxxxx
On Nov 4, 9:06 am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@xxxxxx> wrote:That almost does what I want I just do not want a shell, empty or not,
to not pop open. I found this following information maybe this will
work:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...610uaref89.htm

Note: The "0" parameter in the following oshell.run commands is used
to hide the
' shell-created DOS command window. The "true" parameter means
to halt script
' execution until the called program finishes and returns
control.

rc = oshell.run("kumpping", 0, true)
if rc <> 0 then
wscript.echo "Status from kumpping is " & rc
wscript.echo "Verify that the Universal Agent API Data Provider is
active. Exiting..."
wscript.quit
end if


The Run method accepts up to 3 parameters, only the first is required. If
the second parameter is 0 the app runs hidden. 1 means normal (default), 2
minimized, 3 maximized. There seems to be nothing similar for the Exec
command.

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