1. What is wrong with using a variable?
2. Does your code even work? Strangest way to open a file I have ever seen.
3. Once you DO open your encrypted file, you must decrypt it. If it was a zip file, you obviously have to unzip it. I surely don't see any of that being done in that 'code' of yours. For an example of encrypting and decrypting a file, see this example...maybe THAT will help you: https://www.fortypoundhead.com/showc...sp?artid=24322