Your new suggestion also works fine. No delay ...
But the whole idea is that I don't want to put a link to the program which must execute the file.
It can be different for every user.
Not using any 'program link' is very attractive for me because the file can have every kind of extention and it is up to the user of the program to decide to which program he/she associates certain file extention.
So I appreciate your help very much but I would like to know why 'system("file.html")' takes !!!exactly!!! 30 seconds to start and why 'system("c:\\program files\\internet explorer\\iexplore.exe File.html")' starts up immediately.

In reply to Re^4: system("start ...") has 30 secs delay by yike
in thread system("start ...") has 30 secs delay by yike

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