What is the syntax to run an .exe on a client desktop from asp
script ? This would be a dot net exe on the client desktop, but old
pre-dot-net asp.

I should have given more detail in my question:

These are our customers who trust us. They will set the security
settings of their browser any way we tell them to. The .exe on their client is something we wrote that will already be there on there computer. How do we start it from an asp page ?

Again, the .exe is vb dot net. The asp page is old style, pre dot net.

ASP will not help you here because it runs on the server, so any ASP code which spawns an exe will run that exe on the server.

You need some client-side script. Here is a simple bit of VBS which uses the Windows Scripting Host objects to run an exe:
<script language="vbscript">
Sub RunExe(sPathToExe)
    set wshell = createobject("wscript.shell")
    wshell.run sPathToExe
    set wshell = nothing
End Sub
</script>
you can call it like this:
<input type="button" onclick="RunExe('path to your exe')">

That's working fine, is there also a way you can skip the following message ? :

"An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction ?"

Is there a way we can make the interaction secure automatically. For example in a secure Intranet, would it be possible to set this option, to launch an app automatically ?

Thanks for your advice ...

Sorry, I mean without the need to change the IE security settings on every individual machine ?

It depends what the exe is doing. There are registry keys that can be included with ActiveX controls to declare them as script safe, but first you have to determine if they are script safe. What does the exe do?

Well, let's say we want to simply launch an application stored on the client his PC and check whether the application is installed on the C-drive.[any application : Winword, Remedy, etc].

Back to 9/22/2003, we had a discussion about how to run an .exe on a client desktop from asp. As pgtips indicated, client-side VBS script which uses the Windows Scripting Host objects can be used to run an exe.

That's working fine, is there also a way you can skip the following message ? :

"An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction ?"

Thanks
James


james