forcing a hyperlink to open a pic in IE

[aphelps]

Hi--

I have a table full of hyperlinks to photos of eagle nests. When one is clicked, it opens in the default program, Paint (the photos are BMPs). I don't like the idea of users potentially being able to scribble on these photos then saving them, so I'd like to force the hyperlink to open in Internet Explorer. Apart from setting my machine default so that BMPs all open in IE (which won't help for other users), and apart from creating html pages for each photo (lots of photos), does anyone know how to force a hyperlink to open a file in a specific application? I've checked help, searched this site, chekced the many books we have around here, and no place can I seem to find a property for this.

Thanks!

Adam

 

[aphelps]

I realize that I can change the properties of each file in Windows to open in IE, but if anyone knows of a way to force the hyperlink issue anyway, I'd like to hear it.