Yeah, the Shell command is pretty good. It works most like a DOS command line.

Try this for fun some time (but make sure you don't have a file on the root called Files.txt that you need for anything):

Code:
Shell "dir c:\*.* /s/a/o/l/b > c:\files.txt"
This is just a simple example, but it illustrates that most anything you can do from a DOS command line, you can do from within VB using the Shell command.

Pretty useful for small tasks because it is quick and easy.