I use Purebasic www.PureBasic.Com for Scripting.

I create a User Library for Purebasic : Droopy's Lib

Here's some functions:
Shutdown / logoff / Reboot
Get the path where was launched
Change default path of your program
Get the program name
Search process name in memory
Runas
Block Input
Get & Set ComputerName
Get Environement variables
Get Windows / System path
Map / UnMap network drives*
Impersonalization
Get / Set INI Files
Create / Write Log files
Get / Enum / Delete / Create : Users & LocalGroups
Get / Set Files Attributes
Search Subdirectory for files with dos mask
Create path ( with all its subdirectory )
Delete path ( with all its subdirectory )
Get free space in Drive
Simple Timer

Detail

I include the Souce Code