What I am trying to do is make a little console program that will open a URL...simple enough, but I have no experience with console programming, except in C++. What I need to do is get the information passed when the program was run. For example, I want to implement something similar to ping in DOS. When you use ping 0.0.0.0 it will get the 0.0.0.0 parameter and ping that. Thats exactly what I want to do. I want to be able to open up a dos console and run url.exe www.vb-world.net and have it open vb-world. Can u help?