>perhaps this helps
>
>

>local oWsh as object
>oWsh=createobject("Wscript.Shell")
>cFile="file://c:\word.doc"
>oWsh.run("iexplore "+cFile)
>rele oWsh
>

>
>i don't know if you could transfer it to the navigateTo-property of the ie-activeX

The Confirm file download message will still pop-up though, so I can't get out of editing the registry value.

Thanks
Kev