Associate HTA

[twooly]

How can I associate HTA in PE so it doesn't prompt you with the open dialog box? I will be creating our front end using HTA and would like to get rid of this step.

Thanks

[likuidkewl]

Did you run the buildoptionalcomonents.vbs? This creates the files you need to enable HTA/ADO/WSH, then you append the line to your startnet.cmd,

OC.bat

That is it.

[twooly]

Yeah I have that. I can use my HTA files just fine but when I type this on the command prompt.

d:\dir\dir\example.hta

The Usual IE download dialog box opens up telling you the file type and then you click the Open button and it works. How can I get rid of this step? Get rid of the download dialog.

[likuidkewl]

You can launch it from a batch file

[twooly]

I guess that is what I am asking. If I put the one line d:\dir\dir\example.hta in say the startnet.cmd I still get the dialog box. Can you give an example?

[likuidkewl]

Append mshta.exe to it, but make it it's own batch file.

ex.

mshta.exe <yourdir>\your.hta

hth

[mbouchard]

What version of PE are you running? I experienced this with Version 1.2 and unfortunately have not found a way around this. Supposedly you can load a hive and make an edit there but I have not been succesful.

Mike

[twooly]

likuidkewl I tried what you said and nothing happens. Just comes back to the command line.

[twooly]

Take that back. Spoke too soon. Just took a little bit to come back up. Thanks much

[likuidkewl]

No problem.