>Get the default browser for the machine?
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>Wayne

You could check in the registry to see the Shell/Open command registered for htm files. This will be a two step process as different browsers register htm files as different file types. You'l have to look in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.htm. After getting the value, check further down in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT for that type (for example, htm files on my machine or of type htmlfile.

I then have to check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/htmlfile/Shell/Open/Command to see the path to the program used to view html.

There is probably an API call to get the default application for a file type, but I don't know it. George? Ed?

OTOH, if all you want to do is use the default browser to open a specified file, you can use:

oShell = CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Application")
oShell.Open("c:\mywebpage.htm")

OR

oShell.Open("http://www.levelextreme.com")