John,
It sounds like you've got an instance of the Winsock control dropped onto that form too. The browser control itself on a form doesn't need winsock.
What line of code is throwing the error?
>I've created a simple app that uses the web browser control and it is doing what I want, but it's spawning error messages when loading. It tells me class definition mswinsock.winsock is not found. If I ignore the message the next error message is winsock is not installed. The only option presented is ok, so I click that and my app works. I am building the app on an XP machine using VFP 8 and using the latest dumbed down version of Install Shield for VFP. I've tried including the merge module and unincluding. Neither seems to have an effect. I've also tried locating the mswinsck.ocx and registering it on the local machine. Nope, that doesn't work either. Help!