"Jesse Houwing" wrote:

> acidburn@noemail.noemail wrote:
> > Hello got a problem with the AxWebBrowser in Vista. In older versions of
> > Windows (XP,2000,...) this line of code :
> >
> > Dim AxWord as new AxWebBrowser
> > AxWord.Navigate("dummyfile.doc")
> >
> > Would open "dummyfile.doc" in the browser control. In Vista a new instance
> > of Word get's opened and here the "dummyfile.doc" file is opened. What could
> > be the cause of this behaviour ?
> >
> > How can I fix it ?
>
> Are you running a 64 bit version of Vista? In that case Word (32 bit)
> cannot be hosted in Internet explorer (64 bit) and will be launched as a
> separate process. There's no work-around until Microsoft releases a
> 64bit version of Office.
>
> Jesse
>