Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / October 2004

How do I create a link on a Web page on my hard drive that will run an
executable file on my hard drive?

For example, let's say I create runpoodle.htm and save it to my hard
drive, and let's also say I have an executable file on the root of C
named c:\poodle.exe.

How can I create a link of some sort on runpoodle.htm that will run
poodle.exe on c:\ ?

Better yet, can I specify a data file that poodle.exe will open after it
starts?

I use Windows XP Pro, and when I create a simple href anything like this

<a href="file:\\c:\poodle.exe"> Run POODLE.EXE</a>

the result is that Windows or maybe Internet Explorer opens a security
warning box asking whether I want to download poodle.exe.

If you need any other information, please let me know.

If this is not the appropriate newsgroup for this question, can you
suggest which ones I should try?

Thanks.

--Johnny
johnnyg aattssiiggnn kc.rr.com