>Thanks for all your replies! :)
>
>But am I limited to only using IE? How do I launch the system's default browser? Be it IE or Netscape. :)
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>Likewise the default email?
>
>Thanks again
>Ian

That's the beauty of either of these methods, you don't have to what browser or mail reader the user uses. Shellexecute looks in the registry for the default program to use for a certain type of file/ URL.