I need a simple function that will download a file from a URL and save on the users computer...as little overhead as possible would be best...

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Try this.  No progress or anything but it does everything seamlessly and simply.

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 Public Function DownloadFile(URL As String, LocalFilename As String) As Boolean Dim lngRetVal As Long lngRetVal = URLDownloadToFile(0, URL, LocalFilename, 0, 0) If lngRetVal = 0 Then DownloadFile = True End Function Private Sub Form_Load()     DownloadFile "http://www.allapi.net", "c:\allapi.htm" End Sub

I'm pretty sure this is a synchronous download, so I wouldn't go about downloading a huge file with it or anything.  A custom class utilizing winsock would be handy.