Hi,

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I have a static .html page on my local machine and I like to have a link that executes a Batch File.
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With IE you should be able to use VBscript (or JScript) and Windows scripting. Something like:

<script language="vbscript" >
Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.Run("mycommand")
</script>

You may need to loosen up the security settings in IE to allow this..
HTH,
Viv