HELP! Does Javascript need the explorer.exe process?

Question

Here is a sample of javascript code in my web application:
<script language="javascript">
function redirect() {
eval("parent.ObjReview_Object.update();");
</script>
Does someone know why this code runs perfectly when the Windows process "explorer.exe" is running on my computer (which is the client of the web app), but doesn't work anymore when I remove this process?
The fact is that unfortunately, for a specific reason, I cannot have the process "explorer.exe" running on my computer. So the whole web application runs correctly on my computer except this code... and I really don't know why.
Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

As I said before, considering how tightly IE and the Windows OS are tied together, it doesn't surprise me at all to hear this as being a problem. Even if you technically "uninstall" IE, it's my understanding that you are not really removing any code, DLLs, etc, just removing some shortcuts. This is cus the OS itself uses all the same things for so many functions. So it's probably that the OS (explorer.exe) has those functions, DLLs, whatever, and that IE just uses them directly.
One question, though... What is ObjReview_Object? Is this a real JS object or is it like a COM object or something? Just wondering if things like a simple alert() call would work in it's place as a test.