running .exe program from javascript in IE8

[su817200]

Dear Friend,
I am trying to run a .exe program using javascript from IE8
It is not not working. I thing there are some settings in Internet Explorer 8 to allow execution of .exe. Please let me know. Also one more thing there are some ActiveX scripts, how to allow IE8 to run ActiveX without prompting.
Rgds,

[gits]

you might get that to work only on a local machine - for plain security reasons ... you cannot set security relevant settings on other machine's browsers without permission of the user ... so the prompt will hopefully always occur for such things. so are you trying that for a local machine?

[su817200]

yes I am trying that for a local machine?How to get .exe files running from IE8. Please let me know.

[gits]

in this case you might try something like this:

var WshShell = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
WshShell.Exec('foo.exe');

you might have an additional look here for the docs of the WSH ...