Running PowerPoint Ready for CD .pps presentations via FrontPage

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Brand new at this (last thing I programmed in was DBase III Plus) and have
been "volunteered" by my boss. I created a .pps slide show with sound in
PowerPoint and exported it using the Package for CD option to a folder. It
works fine on my PC. When I import the directory to FrontPage (as a child
folder) the play.bat will not execute, it just opens in a new tab. Tried
entering the command directly into a button, but then it asks what program I
want to to use to open the slide show. The command is: pptview.exe /L
"playlist.txt" . The file pptview.exe is in the directory. I also tried
converting the .bat to .exe but my corporate web page isn't allowed to open
it. Understanding that this is probably a very basic question, can anyone
help me out?
 
You cannot run a .exe or a .bat file from a web browser - there are too
many security risks involved.

Try importing the .pps file into the web and linking to the .pps file,
and also link to the powerpoint viewer (zipped as a .zip file)
The browser (if IE) should run powerpoint or the viewer if installed,
other browsers will download the file(s).
 
Thanks! I was looking at some of the Microsoft help scripting answers but I
wasn't sure if I could (or would want to) run scripts on both our students
home systems and the classroom PC's. I definitely appreciate your help. Now
I've got to check with our administrators and see if the students are allowed
to unzip and install the PowerPoint viewer on all of our different classroom
systems. Your answer definitely helped, thanks for taking the time to reply!
 
Ronx,
A co-worker would like me to create a webpage just for himself on a LAN
drive. But he wants to launch exe and or bat files. Can this be done just for
him?
 
With my security settings (which are pretty loose) I can launch notepad
from a simple web page opened on my desktop.
The code is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Launch</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="file:///c:/windows/notepad.exe">NotePad</a></p>
</body>
</html>

However, this gives 1 download dialogue, plus 1 security warning. I
suspect the exe file was copied from Windows folder to the browser cache
and run from the cache. With this action other programs that use dlls
as well as the .exe would fail.

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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Thanks Ronx, I 'll follow your suggestion at work tomorrow. If it works I'll
let you know. Have a great day!
 
Ronx,
I checked and I had already tried your suggestion and it did not work. I
think I'll have to look into VB scripting to make it work. Basically I need
to run dos commands from the web browser. But thanks for your suggestion.
 
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