Opening an EXE from a Button

Hi everyone,
Hope someone can help me, i'm having major difficulties. I'm using Adobe Flash Professional CS3 and I'm trying to create a button to open a .exe file. I have been going roudn in circles and nothing seems to work for me at all.
I have created my button and gave it an instance name, if someone can talk me throgh the procedure I would be very much obliged.
Many Thanks
Paul

I belive that is for a security reasons.
This is a help for fscommand.
To use fscommand() to send a message to Flash Player, you must use predefined commands and parameters. The following table shows the values that you can specify for the fscommand() function's command and args parameters. These values control SWF files that are playing in Flash Player, including projectors. (A projector is a SWF file saved in a format that can run as a stand-alone application—that is, without Flash Player.)
Command
Parameter (args)
Purpose
quit
None
Closes the projector.
fullscreen
true or false
Specifying true sets Flash Player to full-screen mode. Specifying false returns the player to normal menu view.
allowscale
true or false
Specifying false sets the player so that the SWF file is always drawn at its original size and never scaled. Specifying true forces the SWF file to scale to 100% of the player.
showmenu
true or false
Specifying true enables the full set of context menu items. Specifying false hides all of the context menu items except About Flash Player and Settings.
exec
Path to application
Executes an application from within the projector.
trapallkeys
true or false
Specifying true sends all key events, including accelerator keys, to the onClipEvent(keyDown/keyUp) handler in Flash Player.
Not all of the commands listed in the table are available in all applications:
None of the commands are available in web players.
All of the commands are available in stand-alone applications, such as projectors.
Only allowscale and exec are available in test-movie players.
The exec command can contain only the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, period (.), and underscore (_). The exec command runs in the subdirectory fscommand only. In other words, if you use the exec command to call an application, the application must reside in a subdirectory named fscommand. The exec command works only from within a Flash projector file.

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