HTML Applications (HTAs) are standalone applications that work on Windows OSs with Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 and later. Double-clicking an .hta file runs it like any other executable. HTAs use the IE engine to render the application's menus, buttons, and so on. However, HTAs don't use IE's UI. With HTAs, you design the UI. (For an introduction on how to design HTA UIs, see "Hooked on HTAs," August 2005, InstantDoc ID 46795.)
In HTAs, you can use JScript or VBScript code and such technologies as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). I created a utility that uses VBScript code and WMI to retrieve OS information from the local computer. This utility is composed of four files: winutil.hta, winstup.hta, winosys.hta, and winbios.hta. Winutil.hta launches the other three .hta files. You can download the four files from the Windows Scripting Solutions Web site: Go to http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowsscripting, enter 49363 in the InstantDoc ID text box, then click the 49363.zip hotlink. . . .
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