html exe link

peteyboy22 · 07-11-2009, 06:54 PM

hi, i'm real bored today, after i fixed to vista boot loader thingy, i had nothing else to do, so i thought i'd create an autorun html page for my flash drive to boot my programs from (simple .exe's not a full program)

i'm not the greatest with html, so i just need the link that will open up the program.. i googled it already and got no where, so if anyone knows a way please tell me, and if you don't think it's possible aslo tell me, cuz i don't wanna waste my time

vampist · 07-12-2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by peteyboy22

hi, i'm real bored today, after i fixed to vista boot loader thingy, i had nothing else to do, so i thought i'd create an autorun html page for my flash drive to boot my programs from (simple .exe's not a full program)

i'm not the greatest with html, so i just need the link that will open up the program.. i googled it already and got no where, so if anyone knows a way please tell me, and if you don't think it's possible aslo tell me, cuz i don't wanna waste my time

so you want html to open a .exe file automatically or when clicked on a page?
I don't think this is possible for security reasons.
As far as I know you can only link to the file and have it download(save) or open. Which would depend on the users security settings in the browser being used.

**berry120** · 07-12-2009, 04:51 PM

It's not possible to do this just using HTML, at least not run a program. As pointed out already that'd be silly for security reasons, can you imagine if any website that you pointed your browser at could run whatever it wanted? You can pop up a box that'll ask you whether you want to save or run the program, but that sounds different to what you're after.

This to me sounds like a classic case of using the wrong language for the job, you want something that'll compile and execute on your system, that way you can run whatever programs you like easily - so any language like C, C++, Java, VB.NET etc. would do what you wanted pretty easily. But launching programs directly from HTML pages? That's a complete no no!

j03 · 07-12-2009, 05:36 PM

Without writing an ActiveX control (or similar), you couldnt do that. As the above have mentioned, you cannot run things straight from a web browser, as it would be a serious security issue.

If I wanted to do it quickly, I'd consider making a word document with a series of buttons that linked to macro's. These macro's would simply have

shell("programpath/programname.exe")

in them...

**berry120** · 07-12-2009, 05:58 PM

Perhaps a stupid point, but wouldn't the simplest way just be a folder of shortcuts?

dudelewis1 · 07-12-2009, 07:00 PM

I would probably do a .bat.

peteyboy22 · 07-19-2009, 11:07 AM

well i know there is a way.. yoyogames.com when you play a game, you can play it without opening it, and i know it's stupid, i'm just wanted to do something cool with my flash drive

07-11-2009, 06:54 PM	#1
peteyboy22 Baseband Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 72	html exe link hi, i'm real bored today, after i fixed to vista boot loader thingy, i had nothing else to do, so i thought i'd create an autorun html page for my flash drive to boot my programs from (simple .exe's not a full program) i'm not the greatest with html, so i just need the link that will open up the program.. i googled it already and got no where, so if anyone knows a way please tell me, and if you don't think it's possible aslo tell me, cuz i don't wanna waste my time

07-12-2009, 04:51 PM	#3
berry120 Site Team Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2,629	Re: html exe link It's not possible to do this just using HTML, at least not run a program. As pointed out already that'd be silly for security reasons, can you imagine if any website that you pointed your browser at could run whatever it wanted? You can pop up a box that'll ask you whether you want to save or run the program, but that sounds different to what you're after. This to me sounds like a classic case of using the wrong language for the job, you want something that'll compile and execute on your system, that way you can run whatever programs you like easily - so any language like C, C++, Java, VB.NET etc. would do what you wanted pretty easily. But launching programs directly from HTML pages? That's a complete no no!

07-12-2009, 05:36 PM	#4
j03 Cheesoid Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wales Posts: 5,526	Re: html exe link Without writing an ActiveX control (or similar), you couldnt do that. As the above have mentioned, you cannot run things straight from a web browser, as it would be a serious security issue. If I wanted to do it quickly, I'd consider making a word document with a series of buttons that linked to macro's. These macro's would simply have shell("programpath/programname.exe") in them...

07-12-2009, 05:58 PM	#5
berry120 Site Team Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2,629	Re: html exe link Perhaps a stupid point, but wouldn't the simplest way just be a folder of shortcuts?

07-12-2009, 07:00 PM	#6
dudelewis1 Daemon Poster Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 768	Re: html exe link I would probably do a .bat. __________________ Athlon II x2 255 @ 3.1ghz \| 4 gb ddr3 ram\| 500+80 gb wd hd \| Sapphire 5450 \| Win7 \| Hanns G 20" Toshiba Satellite \| Core2Duo @ 2.0 ghz \| 3gb ram \| 250 gb hd \| lolintelgma \| Ubuntu 10.04

07-19-2009, 11:07 AM	#7
peteyboy22 Baseband Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 72	Re: html exe link well i know there is a way.. yoyogames.com when you play a game, you can play it without opening it, and i know it's stupid, i'm just wanted to do something cool with my flash drive

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