I want to read my local directory My Pics on my PC using VBscript or Javascript, then display the pics randomly in my local browser window, e.g. IE6. I will not be connecting to a host server nor am I running IIS.

Any ideas?

You cannot use VBScript or JavaScript to read a directory on a client machine. This is by design.

You can create an ActiveX control (Internet Explorer only), Java applet or server-side scripting code (which you specifically said you don’t want / cannot do) to read a client directory. In the first two cases, the client needs to give explicit permission to install the control / applet and to allow the control / applet to access the local drive.