<script language="VBScript">
    Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    Call WshShell.Run("%windir%\notepad.exe")
</script>

Just forgot to mention the version of IE i am using in the previous
post on CreateObject .. it is IE 6.0 and the above script when placed
in a web page causes the security warning of "The page contains
ActiveX controls that may be harmful ...." My security settings in IE
for Active X controls have been set to Enable for the entire section
under Active X controls ... How do I suppress this ??? Help !!!

TIA,
  Vanitha

You can't supress it. It is part of the securtity settings in IE. Maybe if the
user sets his security settings to very low, the message will go away, but I
wouldn't recommend to do that.

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torgeir

Whether you use JScript's new ActiveXObject() or VBScript's CreateObject() or whether you get the prompt or the failure, the issues are still the same...

Q195826 - PRB: CreateObject Fails from Client-Side Scripts
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q195/8/26.ASP

Or you can simply use HTAs instead - as simple as saving the file with .hta instead of .htm as the extension. .hta files are hosted by mshta.exe rather than iexplore.exe, and have a security model comparable to a conventional Windows desktop application. Of course accepting and executing an HTA is also up to the end user...

Just remember that wscript/cscript.exe is still NOT the host. So the intrinsic WScript object isn't available, but the entire DHTML DOM is (pretty fair trade if you ask me ;-)..

Description of Internet Explorer Security Zones Registry Entries
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q182/5/69.asp

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Michael Harris
Microsoft.MVP.Scripting
Seattle WA US
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