Launcher Types

[Anon]

I'm not even going to pretend this is related to PHP so if you're expecting it to be, press back. Sorry. Flame me if you like.

I'm writing, in PHP, a file index for a fileserver on a Windows network. The file index is on a Linux webserver. Theoretically, when users click the link to a file that isn't a directory, the file should launch in its own application (ie, Word should be launched for .doc files). Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to build some crap into IE that makes my life difficult by refusing to launch a separate application--it just opens the files inside of IE. Some files, non Microsoft ones for example, won't even open.

I know I've noticed IE launching helper apps before in the past for things like TIFF files. Where in the registry will I find the entries that control those helper applications?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the offtopic. As a response I'm also willing to take an alternate place I can ask this question...

[Anon]

Have you considered using VBSCRIPT? We have a similar thing at my job where EXCEL and WORD is launched outside IE. This is done by VBSCRIPT. Although you must set the site as TRUSTED site and allow ACTIVE X

/Fredrik

[Anon]

I've tried a bit of VBScript, but it didn't seem to execute the program (I used a test script that was supposed to execute notepad), and it didn't give me an error message either so I'm kind of stuck.

Do you happen to know any more details about what you did? And does NT4 support Windows Scripting Host?