>>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.
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>>TIA
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>In additon to Naomi's suggestion, just give IE a filesystem URL:
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>loIE = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
>loIE.Navigate("file://c:\program files")
>loIE.Visible=.t.

It would not be Windows Explorer <g>