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Message: [QUOTE="Roedy Green, post: 622534"] There are two places you can have autolaunch. One is in the browser. To do that the browser needs a table with the extension, the mime type and the name of the application to run. Consider Opera, the browser I use most often. Sun refuses to set these tables up in Opera and Opera also refuses to set them up. I wrote and asked and got a formal refusal. The user can do it manually, but it is a scary process that most novices will balk at it and refuse to do. The other place is in Windows (or your OS itself). You need an association. There are some tantalising hints in the Java control panel that it will set up the association, but I suspect the feature won't get turned on until someone goes into the Advanced section of the Java control panel (which scares off most users). Further, each browser has a different procedure for setting up the associations. Opera is the only browser where the proceses is relatively straight forward. I have documented much of this at [URL]http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jaws.html[/URL] Sun seems to be trying to sabotage JAWS by not setting up these associations automatically. From a developer point of view, getting these associations set up is a scary hurdle that blocks users from even trying my JAWS apps. [/QUOTE]