Problem
I get strange behavior when trying reference long file names. For example when I try to run a program using WScript.Shell, I get errors and the application does not run.

var shell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" );
var rst = shell.Run( "c:\\program files\\plus!\\microsoft internet\\iexplore.exe", 1, true );

Solution
Wrap the path to the file in quotes. In JScript, you use the backslash character to escape special characters. We want to put a set of double quotes within an existing set of double quotes and need to escape the quotes inside using \".

var shell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" );
var rst = shell.Run( "\"c:\\program files\\plus!\\microsoft internet\\iexplore.exe\"", 1, true );