Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Accessing Internet Explorer favorites is not hard since they are nothing more than files and folders. All you have to basically do is find the IE Favorites folder, then read it’s structure and file list. Once this is done you will need to read the URL that’s in each of the files. Sounds easy? You [...]

You can always use some component. But if you are just going to download there is no need to do this or to use ActiveX controls. Windows has the function you need already declared in the UrlMon.dll. To download a file to a local disk just use this code:
!!Note: This function is not described in [...]