>Hi All,
>
>When doing:
>

o = createobject( 'shell.application' )

>I get an error: Class definition SHELL.APPLICATION is not found
>
>This error (1733) puzzles me. On my own pc there's no problem. The problem only happens on my customer's pc's (big company). My pc has a reference to SHELL.APPLICATION in the Registry. On the troublesome pc's no such reference could be found. Is this the cause? Or might it be something else?

My hunch is that it's a Win9x machine which has never had IE 4.01 with the Active Desktop option installed. That would explain the missing reference.