No If you rephrase that as can I make some settings on my local machine that will allow a browser based application to do anyhting to my hard drive and therefore take over my machine. You can make a file open/save operation only and only if it is initiated by the user. Oh and it must be the first operation after the event is raised! Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Why would I want to use Awesomium. I'm not the poster, and he doesn't get notified of replies to other people. By the way, Awesomium might not be free depending on his compliance with the license, so the OP might not want to have to splash out on it. Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility