>>1. Thats the slashed wrist part. I don't know of anyway to do this from the server end unless its a cookie or you have a activex/com object on client side.
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>>2. Not --that I know of-- directly. You can point then to a download link but I don't think you can place it where you want from your end.
>>You can have a self extracting file, but --I-- don't know of a way to have your sever kick it off once the client has down loaded.
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>>Hopefully someone else may.
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>>Jeff
>Hi Jeff.
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I don't know how useful this will be, since I haven't tried doing it myself. How about something like this:

Install your little applet on the users machine.
On the web page page put your link
Update Security Code - link this to http://www.yourwebsite.com/anyfile.XYZ
On the users machine, register the .XYZ (or whatever) extension to your applet.
Your applet should start up when they click on the link.

This >should< work, since I know you can do it with things like MIDI files and PDF files. You don't really need to do anything with the anyfile.XYZ, it's just the mechanism you use to start your program automatically.