A great way of advertising your site is to offer a link from the desktop or Start Menu to your site.  To do this, you create a URL file.  When this file is double-clicked, it opens up the default browser with the Web Site stored in the file. The structure of the file is as follows. URL File Structure A URL file has the extension .URL, and contains the following text: [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.websiteaddress.com           A Internet Shortcut file that points towards Allapi.net would have the format: [InternetShortcut] URL=../           Code The following code creates a Internet Shortcut on the desktop. 'declare variables Dim StrURLFile As String Dim StrURLTarget As String Dim FileNum As Integer 'initialise Variables StrURLFile = "C:\Windows\Desktop\KPDHome.url" StrURLTarget = "../" FileNum = FreeFile 'Write the Internet Shortcut file Open StrURLFile For Output As FileNum Print #FileNum, "[InternetShortcut]" Print #FileNum, "URL=" & StrURLTarget Close FileNum