How to open Windows Explorer (Windows+E) using Javascript

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Keitherj picture Keitherj · Apr 7, 2011 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

How do you open Windows Explorer (Windows+E) through Javascript?

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Devin Burke picture Devin Burke · Apr 7, 2011

You cannot open Windows Explorer through JavaScript because modern web browsers are locked down to offer virtually zero access to the client user's hard drive. An unpatched version of Internet Explorer 6.0 could have accessed Windows Explorer by browsing in a new window to file://c:/.

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