Hi,

>How about running and pointing the address to the default home page set in the Internet Option of the Tools menu?

Are talking about IE only (I don't know if all browsers have this layout <g>) ?

David's method is calling up the *registered* default browser.
If you may call IE and are certain it is deployed, use

oie = createobject("InternetExplorer.Application")
oie.GoHome()
*-- wait either for oie.readystate or oie.documentcomplete()
oie.visible = .t.

If you must use the default browser, you have to get that browser's home adress and feed it to shellexecute().

HTH

thomas