Hi,
First of all, it's a she.
And to answer your questions:
Not using the cmd is part of the requirements, and the reasons are complicated, so I'll leave it for now.
That would invoke the default browser; he says in his subject line he wants to run iexplore.exe, (why?) and he says he wants to do it "from a program" (why?)...
I need to do it automatically in a special case, and writing a batch file or a python script to do it will force me changing the design.
In the meantime I found out that giving the url file with full path works just fine - if I give only the filename, it treats it as a url.
Thanks