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>>>The SHellobject is a COM interface to a lot of Windows interface elements. You need a relatively new version of SHell32.dll that ships with IE4, NT SP3 (I think), and all later versions of windows (including 98). Do a search here on shell32 for a thread on this a couple of weeks ago.
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>>Eric - I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but for this to work, IE is definitely needed - the "N" word doesn't implement InternetExplorer.Application, so just the shell components alone aren't going to help...
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>I don;t have a machine that I can test on on (one without IE), but shouldn't Shell.Aplication be available without IE? (I know this is useless for this particular application, but just for Shell's sake)?

Why the Shell would you ever want to have a system without IE on it? < BEG >

Shell.Application can be present without IE being installed, but part of its functionality would not be available (for one thing, the Windows collection will always be empty!) Even if IE is present on the system, you can't use the InternetExplorer.Application automation model to control the NetScrape browser's sessions.