How can i open windows calculator from website? with javascript or actionscript? Ive tried avtiveX but its only in explorer, I want to open calculator from google chrome
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5422093/run-a-program-from-a-local-webpage – CodingDefined Sep 26 '14 at 10:41
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Does this answer your question? [Run a program from a local webpage](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5422093/run-a-program-from-a-local-webpage) – Robert Columbia May 26 '20 at 16:52
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The only solution i found is using URI scheme
window.open('Calculator:///'); /* shows a confirm dialog to run the app*/
i'm not sure if this would work on older versions (7,8,8.1) but it works on windows 10
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You can't*. Consider the implications if you could open an arbitrary program on someone's computer from a web page...
(* Without writing and installing a plug-in, and plug-ins are increasingly being phased out by browser vendors in favor of sandboxed extensions.)
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Use href="ms-calculator://" but you'll get a popup asking if you want to open it. If that is no good, then you would have to somehow get it to open without the alert popup.
kernix
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You can use calculator: URI (just as a URL), it will prompt the user with an html message first.
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