>This is strange. My registry entry for
>the mailto is set to fire Outlook.
>
>If I copy the command line from the registry
>into the Windows 'Run' window it works fine.
>
>If I run
>
>oShell = CREATEOBJECT('Shell.Application')
>oShell.Open("mailto:someone@nowhere.com")
>
>I get nothing. What's going on here?

I have no idea - is it possibly launching the mailto minimized? There'd be a task bar entry if that happened. If it couldn't find the mailto entry, you'd get a system error message.