Ok Rick. I follow you here and thanks. I am seeing now that it's a security issue as to why I could not get the scripts to run. In this case I'll probably look for other ways to accomplish my goal since lowering security on the browsers would not be wise.

>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.
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>Think of this scenario: You download a page and you do Delete("\winnt\system32\*.*"). Makes for a very unhappy user, wouldn't you say?
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>You *can* allow WSH to run via security settings, but be VERY, VERY careful with this.