>Hi Gregory,
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>>>Have you looked at the Windows Script Host? Much of this functionality is available via and and without the necessary code overhead required for the API calls.
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>>No, not yet. A part of my customers still have win95. I think I remember that under 95 you have to donwload it. Maybe also in win98. Since I am just shipping software (a CD), I do not know over 90% of them.
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>>I know that much of that functionality is in wsh (from ut and ng). Just wanted to be on the safe side.
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>Well, as you probably know, Win95 is no longer supported by Microsoft and you may be doing your customers a favor by advising them of such.
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>The WSH was an optional component (though selected by default) in Win98. In later versions, it isn't optional, but required.
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>There's also the Shell.Application object which exposes some more of the functionality you seem to have tapped into. That object, is available on Win98 and later or Win95 having had IE 4.0 with the Active Desktop option installed.

Thanks. Think I'll use those on another occasion. I'll stick with the api for the moment since it is already written and it runs very fast