>I want to open a windows explorer in it's own window and navigate to a given directory.
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>If this were internet explorer I would
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>oIE = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
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>oIE.Navigate("http://some web site/")
>oIE.Visible = .t.
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>
>I want to do the same thing with internet explorer but can't find the class name to even experiment.
>
>TIA

In additon to Naomi's suggestion, just give IE a filesystem URL:

loIE = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
loIE.Navigate("file://c:\program files")
loIE.Visible=.t.