>>>Can somebody pls tell me how to write in VBSCRIPT to call a program from a HTML page.
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>>>Suppose I have made a HTML page and I want to put a link on that, when user clicks that, it should run, say notepad.
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>>>I have tested this command
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>>>Shell "Notepad", but it gives me error.
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>>>Any suggestions/advise will be very helpful
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>>Do you want to run NotePad on Server side or on Client side ?
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>I want to run it on my local hard disk,
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>This HTML page will only be having pointers for the various applications which I have installed on my system.

I've seen an example in VBScript which only requires a few lines. I don't remember where it was but the link to Microsoft is http://www.microsoft.com/vbscript.