I was going to make a little reminder pager like this (to launch ad GuiRunOnce)

"Welcome to your new XP

remind to:

add a password to your user

change machine's name

change hd name

another thing i don't remember now"

now that's very easy and works.

But I had the idea to put directly in the html page the links to the panels that are used to accomplish that task, just like in xp's help

Specifically I found that "control.exe userpasswords"

is the users control panel and

"rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL C:\SYSHOPE\WINXP\System32\sysdm.cpl,,1" opens the computer name under system properties.

Do you know if it's possible? Where should I ask?

It seems that javascript is absolutely protected from reading/writing/launching anything.

Thank you.

I am not 100% sure, but if you try to launch programs out of a html file, it will always try to download it. And even if you say execute it would try to temp download it. The links in the windows help are in the help files, you could use programs to generate a help file (i don't know which programs can do so) and launch that instead of a html file. That should do the work...

I talked about help files because they're basically chm.

Hmm maybe forcing the help system to parse my html would allow me to "launch" instead of "download"