>Can you invoke the Windows Script Host for a local machine from a web page script? I've tried to use the JScript syntax
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>oWSH = new ActiveXObject( "Wscript.Shell" );
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>but this has not been successful. Am I missing something or barking up a wrong tree?

You have to set browser security to allow using the WSH with IE. Yes you can call COM objects easily enough but obviously you can't do this in a Web page without restriction.

Think of this scenario: You download a page and you do Delete("\winnt\system32\*.*"). Makes for a very unhappy user, wouldn't you say?

You *can* allow WSH to run via security settings, but be VERY, VERY careful with this.