Can't open ANY .js file on my computer (Error 800A03EC)

Question

_{Friday, December 20, 2019 7:29 PM}

I am having troubles opening all of my JavaScript files on my computer. I am learning Web Development and I've been using Visual Studio Code to write the files, and Chrome/Firefox Nightly to open them. Everything was completely fine and functioning, today I tried to write some new files and I am not able to open any of them (new, old .js files..). 

The error I get is as following:

Script: script path

Line: 1 (it is always on the first line of code that has not been commented)

Char: 5

Expected: ';'

Code: 800A03EC

Source: Microsoft JScript compilation error

All replies (2)

_{Saturday, December 21, 2019 2:03 AM}

Kindly post here:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=jscript

S.Sengupta,Microsoft MVP Windows and Devices for IT, Windows Insider MVP

_{Monday, December 23, 2019 7:54 AM}

Check the idea here to see if can fix your question:

You need an editor for that. The most basic editor available in Windows is Notepad, you need to open the file in it. Some other popular editors are Brackets, Sublime text, Atom, VSCode, Notepad++, etc.

https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/3480

Regards

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