i am using this api(thanks to iprank) to download an html file directly to file without the webbrowser control ,the advantage being that u can skip loading the images if any in an html file...

VB Code:
  1. Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, ByVal szURL As String, ByVal szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long
  2. Public Function DownloadFile(URL As String, LocalFilename As String) As Boolean
  3.     Dim lngRetVal As Long
  4.     lngRetVal = URLDownloadToFile(0, URL, LocalFilename, 0, 0)
  5.     If lngRetVal = 0 Then DownloadFile = True
  6. End Function
  7. Private Sub Form_Load()
  8.    
  9.     DownloadFile "http://www.somesite.com", "c:\sample.txt"
  10.  
  11. End Sub

hope it helps!!