VBScript Event Error 4096


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Everytime I boot up my After Effects I get this message in event viewer.

"The description for Event ID 4096 from source VBScriptDeprecationAlert cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

VBScript is scheduled for deprecation. Our telemetry indicates that your system is currently utilizing VBScript.
We strongly recommend identifying and migrating away from any VBScript dependencies at the earliest.

The following process has been detected as using VBScript. The associated process tree and call stack are provided below to assist in identifying the scenario in which VBScript was invoked.

ProcessName = "wmic.exe"
ProcessTree = "WMIC.exe;GPUSniffer.exe;AfterFX.exe;explorer.exe"
CallStack = "vbscript.dll+0x6A0B6;vbscript.dll+0x564E1;vbscript.dll+0x4024A;msxml6.dll+0x1113C6;msxml6.dll+0x10E482;msxml6.dll+0x215AC;msxml6.dll+0x4670A;msxml6.dll+0xCA1F7;msxml6.dll+0xCBA85;msxml6.dll+0xCB94D;WMIC.exe+0x276BD;WMIC.exe+0x2173E;WMIC.exe+0x25D45;WMIC.exe+0x3BCD0;WMIC.exe+0x3909F;WMIC.exe+0x18F4;KERNEL32.DLL+0x2E8D7;ntdll.dll+0x8C40C"
ProcessTreeEnhanced = "WMIC.exe("csproduct get vendor");GPUSniffer.exe("-T 574 -E 0 -U 13DB16394DF6BF0A0A490D4C@AdobeID -C GB -A "After Effects" -S 5f5337cf-08e3-4800-8e68-9f8dfa607248 -i 0 -s 1 -H 13291186828613456");AfterFX.exe("<path>\Program <path>\Adobe After Effects <path>\Support <path>\AfterFX.exe"");explorer.exe("<path>\Explorer.EXE")"

The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table"

Will this interfere with my after effects performance and is there something I need to do to fix this?
 

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Hi. I can’t be 100% sure, but I don’t think it’s harmful or will affect your performance

I think something is calling VBScript, possible GPUSniffer? Apparently Microsoft has begun logging warnings whenever any process in Windows uses VBScript, because VBScript is being deprecated. I wouldn’t know how to stop it, someone will probably know.
 
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Yep, if you look at the process tree, you’re opening AfterFX from Explorer (the Windows shell), which is opening GPUSniffer, which is opening wmic, which is calling VBScript.

VBScript and WMIC are deprecated. The AfterFX people will need to update their code to stop doing this, if they haven’t already.
 

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I got the same error just now - it seems TIDAL is using VBScript too.
 

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I don’t think it’s harmless or will affect your performance
Hmm, I think you meant to say...

"I think it’s harmless and won't affect your performance"
or
"I don’t think it’s harmful or will affect your performance"

;-)
 

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