I agree. I submitted this item just to get the old OLE juices flowing. This is more of a curiousity than anything else.

I tested this on WinNT and Win2K. My Win2K box has a sound card, and I must admit - I was really shocked when Merlin started speaking the script lines.

For those that try this on Win2K, change the $agent_path variable to point to c:\windows\msagent...

This excerise was mostly to see how KiX would interface with an OLE control.

Of course, the trick to all of this is to only use components that ship with the base OS and/or popular software packages like IE and OFFICE. Deploying new software to make this stuff work is expensive and risky.

Shawn.