Thanks Imar for your reply. as you said it could be due to security settings in our organization.

i managed to link the exe by giving the full path of the exe...
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<a href="\\10.*.*.*\online\latest\setproxy.exe">Unabl e to access Internet</a>
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can u suggest me how to pass parameters to the exe.. i need to pass the employee id...

thanks in advance for ur time

I don't think you'll be able to do that with a simple link. The browser will just download, but by default not run the application and I know of no way to pass parameters and force it to execute.

What you could do is write local VB script (for the browser in your ASP page) that executes the exe and passes in parameters. This might get you started:

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&h...w=1366&bih=624

For this to work, you need seriously low IE security settings which would typically only work in an Intranet environment (which seems to be the case for you).

Cheers,

Imar

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