I have been creating a in house helpdesk website for the company i work for. We have just released it to the public but the biggest problem is getting the users moved from sending e-mails to using the new helpdesk. Now if a user had a desktop icon that would launch the site i would think they would start using it more.

I was wonder if anyone knows a place where i can find how to create a desktop icon using ASP. I found how to do it using VB but changing it over to ASP would take me forever. It uses some things i'm not familiar with.

I guess the best thing i could try to do is have a user click the link, then have it execute the VBScript instead of an ASP script.

Anyone have an answer for any of these things?

You can't

ASP is server side code.

I think you can drag a link pointing to your help desk from IE onto your desktop, and it will create a shortcut pointing to that URL.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

I think you can drag a link pointing to your help desk from IE onto your desktop, and it will create a shortcut pointing to that URL.

Agree. This is the quick and easy method. It work just like a bookmark to the website on desktop.

It wouldn't be possible for security reasons. If a browser could access the desktop via a server-side application, that opens up the floor for a whole bunch of security issues; malware, virii, etc.