Was able to reproduce with Win2K SP2 and IE 5.50.4522.1800 when I opened IE and simply typed in www.google.com (or whatever I named the file - I simply copied write.exe to Desktop\www.google.com ). I was NOT able to reproduce this when: Adding http:// in front of the www.google.com filename in the IE URL bar When launching it from the Start/Run menu Joe Klemencic --- Original Message --- > - copy autoexec.bat to ..\desktop > - rename autoexec.bat to www.google.com (can be any url) > - then go to IE and type "www.google.com" > - your batch file is then ran Confirmed on Win2K Pro SP1 (5.00.2195) with IE 5.50.4522.1800 (56-bit). Actually IE tried to download the www.google.com file probably because of the '.com' extension. I also went to START/RUN and typed in www.google.com and it tried to run it too (actually giving me an error about it was not a vaild Win32 App).
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