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Joe D wrote:
biggest advantage for me (and the reason I changed from START) was that the user never sees a command window (DOS box) pop up. rundll is a little more 'low-level' than START.....
Another, related, advantage to using the RUNDLL32 version is that it doesn't get confused by & characters in the string like START does. Since the & character is frequently used in web URLs, that's a nice feature.
Also, don't get too hung up on using FileProtocolHandler for launching a browser. It also works for other things! For example, instead of an HTTP: URL, you could specify a Word or Excel document, and Windows would auotmatically launch Word or Excel to read them. It's purpose is to find the right program to process a given path name, and to launch that program. So it works with a web URL, but it also works with ordinary file names.
To add to that, rundll32 is not limited to only calling the FileProtocolHandler! It can do all sorts of other functions. Here's a list to start with:
http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/rundll/
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