some techy assistance rundll32.exe and hyperlinks (in Off-topic)

I am trying to figure out how to send an email with a hyperlink to run this program locally, so users in my office can change their stored network password for an Outlook plugin when they update their domain password....

If you click start>run in windows and type in:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr


It will bring up a stored usernames and passwords screen. If you are unfamillar with rundll32.exe it runs a .dll outside of its native application or applet. The syntax needs to be exact and is case sensitive. I could give instructions to click start, run copy and paste the above etc. but it seems like it shouldn't be that hard to create a hyperlink.

Every way I have tried creating the hyperlink has failed ( using quotes, <> etc.) I can create a shortcut on my computer and add it as an attachment, but security settings on some users computers, and Outlook 2007 particularly keeps them from running the attachment directly, although they can save it and run it, but again for such a seemingly simple task of creating a hyperlink I would prefer it.

say wha?

I just want to create a hyperlink in Outllook, Word, whatever.... to run this command:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr

Any way I have tried it does not work.... I am sure there is a way to do it but I just don't know how. :( I think the spacing after the executable file, ends the hyperlink no matter how I try to format it. If you copy and paste that line above into a command window it pops up the stored password window I was talking about above, but if you email that link to someone it will not due to the formatting.

rt click on desktop:

new>shortcut

paste command line in for the location. not sure if you can mail that but it is worth a try.

hmm, as per above i couldn't get it to email. i did get it to work making a .com file for it. virus programs may block that though. i just went into notepad, saved a blank file as something.com and changed the file type to all files. once saved to desktop, right click file and paste your command into the command line in properties.

Put it in a batch file on a network drive and send out a hyperlink to the batch file?

The network file idea might just do it.... let me give that a try tomorrow, but I would like to get a hyperlink if anyone can figure that out.

Naa, hyperlinks aren't capable of that.

Nerevas is right.

lousy hyperlinks.... I created a shortcut, and put it on a shared network drive, then created a hyperlink to the file in the network drive into emails, that seems to work, but it just seems more complicated than it needed to be.

Thanks for looking into it though all.