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>>>>Well, I just checked my box - where I do have IE installed, but Mozilla is my default browser. And oShell.Namespcace(COOKIES) is pointing to the exact location where IE keeps its cookies, not where default browser does. Actually, there is so much software around which can nowadays launch a browser when you click a link in its About box or somewhere in the help - and it's become some sort of a roulette (presumably not Russian) to guess which browser will it launch.
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>>>< bg >Yeah, and since IE is often pre-loaded...:-)
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>>Another way was found:
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>>o = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.shell")
>>?o.RegRead('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Cookies')
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>Fabian,
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>Does this return the right folder if, say, Netscape is the default browser?

I don't know since I haven't tested with others defaults but I'm pretty sure somebody will.