I would like to place a link on several of my web pages such as: Click here to take notes. When the user clicked on this link the notepad program would open.

Could you code this out for me, please.

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Rudy

It depends what system the user is using. If the user uses ME, you would make the location c:\windows\notepad.exe. If it were 2000 you would make the location c:\winnt\notepad.exe.

It all depends on what OS the client is using, so you would probably have to detect that before you open notepad.

HTH,

Snib

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Hi Larry,

Chances are that changing the location to c:\[whatever] will return an "Access Denied" or similar error.

You could create a shell object & run notepad from there, something like...

function TakeNotes(){
    var o = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
    o.Run("notepad.exe");
    o = null;
}

However a user would have need to have notepad & WSH installed on their machine, plus allow you to run unsafe controls in your page for you to do this - fine if everyone trusts your site (intranet maybe), but otherwise IMHO only a madman would allow this in todays virus ridden World.

HTH,

Chris