Hi Sergey,

your method works fine on my laptop and my development machine
(tested on W2K and W98SE2) but fails both on a NT4 WS and
server machines where something similar needs to be implemented.

oShell = CREATEOBJ('Shell.Application')
gives me a "class definition not found"

I am not sure whether this is due to some security introduced
setting or the method itself isn't supported under NT4.

Since the MSDN - KB on which it is probably based (Article ID: Q176792)
can be found on old MSDN CD's, I tend to believe the first.
Do you know if your method works under NT4 normally ?
Some registry keys I can check ?

TIA

thomas