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copied!<p>I got a great response from my kids with a quick VB script to manipulate a Microsoft Agent character. For those that aren't familiar with MS Agent, it's a series of animated onscreen characters that can be manipulated via a COM interface. You can download the code and characters at the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E11BF712-7862-45BA-826D-44AE3A11836F&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Agent</a> download page.</p> <p>The folllowing few lines will make the Merlin character appear on screen, fly around, knock on the screen to get your attention, and say hello.</p> <pre><code>agentName = "Merlin" agentPath = "c:\windows\msagent\chars\" & agentName & ".acs" Set agent = CreateObject("Agent.Control.2") agent.Connected = TRUE agent.Characters.Load agentName, agentPath Set character = agent.Characters.Character(agentName) character.Show character.MoveTo 500, 400 character.Play "GetAttention" character.Speak "Hello, how are you?" Wscript.Sleep 15000 character.Stop character.Play "Hide" </code></pre> <p>There are a great many other commands you can use. Check <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/agent.mspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/agent.mspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/agent.mspx</a></a> for more information.</p> <p><strong>EDIT 2011-09-02</strong> I recently discovered that Microsoft Agent is not natively installed on Windows 7. However it is offered as a separate download <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/msagent/main.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. I have not tested this so cannot verify whether it operates.</p>

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