Copy an image with a URL source to windows clipboard

If you load an image of any type (gif, jpg etc) into a vb apps webcontrol from a URL (so the picture source is on the net), you can copy and paste this image into a 'Rich Text Box' on Hotmails / MSN Email mail client.

Because the image was from a Net control the URL of the image is preserved thus allowing you to send / view the image from the webmail.

Works great but the initial webbrowser control load is to long.

So what I want to do but can't work out is how to copy a image to the windows clipboard (from a local disk), then change it's source on the clipboard to be a URL. Either that or 'fake' it's creation on the clipboard............

Totally stuck on how to do this without loading first onto a webbrowser control.............

HELP!! :)