Shelling a hidden web page

I am having difficulties useing the shell command to run a hidden web page. I've tried:

Shell "start www.aol.com", vbHide

However, the web page opens and the user can see it, which is the opposite of my intended result.

I've considered using the inet control, but that would require an installation program for my program, which I would like to aviod if possible.

Any ideas, suggestions, or comments?

Try something like this. Keep in mind this will instance Internet Explorer, so users would need IE for it to work. Also notice I have IE.Visible = True commented out. If you want to see if everything is working then uncomment that line.

Code:

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Dim WithEvents IE As InternetExplorer


Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    'Reference the MS Internet control (dont add it to the controls)
    'just do - Project -> References
    Set IE = New InternetExplorer
    'IE.Visible = True
    IE.Navigate2 "http://www.vbforums.com/"
End Sub


'you will now find IE in the dropdown
Private Sub IE_NavigateComplete2(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)
    If URL = "http://www.vbforums.com/" Then
    MsgBox "its there!"
End Sub

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Thanks for the help. It is greatly appreciated.

Also, how can I tell if the person has Internet Explorer or not?