Opening a file e.g. Video avi from a button without opening IE

Hi,
I have been creating a menu with various buttons that use the action 'on success "open file or URL"'. I then link the URL to an avi file that I have created that I want to play in windows media player.
When the menu is produced as a .exe and I click the button linking to the file, an Internet Explorer browser window briefly opens up before the video opens in media player. I want to get rid of that but can't seem to find a way.
Can anybody help?
Thanks

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