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Launch a .exe from canvas app

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Posted on by Kosenurm 802

Hi there, 

 

I have a business case whereby, on the click of a button in a canvas app, it launches a program (.exe) on the user's machine.

 

Is this possible, either out of the box with Power App studio, or via a Launch command to take to a URL which opens this app via Azure?

 

Thanks

K.

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    timl 36,774 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Kosenurm 

    Launching an exe on a users machine from a canvas app (or any website) is a big security risk and it isn't really possible to do this.

    In answer to your second question, you could possibly call Launch to open a web page that contains ActiveX /VBScript to launch the exe. If the user uses the Internet Explorer browser, or Edge in IE mode, this may work. However, it isn't something I would recommend.

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