# Spawning Flash Player to run my SWF?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spawning-flash-player-to-run-my-swf/171818>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 8, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spawning-flash-player-to-run-my-swf/171818 "2005-12-08T12:53:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![avthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@avthree](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/avthree)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spawning-flash-player-to-run-my-swf/171818/1 "2005-12-08T12:53:26Z")

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Hi,  
I am writing an application at the moment, and am wondering whether it is possible to be able to click on an swf link, but that it spawns up a flash player window to run the swf, and not try running it in internet explorer.

I know I can create a projector, but with most peoples firewalls, this wont allow the exe file to grab the xml files that I am using from my website.

So how can I make Flash player run my app outside of internet explorer, without having to download it first?

I hope this makes sense, please ask if you need more info.  
I am using Flash 8, and Actionscript 2.0.

Many thanks,  
AVThree.