Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") ' Get the directory of this script (scripts\), then go up to media-server root scriptDir = fso.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName) serverRoot = fso.GetParentFolderName(scriptDir) WshShell.CurrentDirectory = serverRoot ' Use embedded Python if present (installed distribution), otherwise system Python embeddedPython = serverRoot & "\python\python.exe" If fso.FileExists(embeddedPython) Then WshShell.Run """" & embeddedPython & """ -m media_server.main", 0, False Else WshShell.Run "python -m media_server.main", 0, False End If