you are supposed to run it in a server page like this:<%@ Language="JavaScript"%>
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript" runat="server">
      function runJSMode(prog)
        {
          var RunShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell")
          var TestRun  = RunShell.run(prog,0,0);
        }
</SCRIPT><%
runJSMode("c:\\whateverdir\\progman.exe")
%>