Can Default Save File folder be set programmatically in IE?

[rsmock21]

Is there a way to set the default folder in the Save To dialog box that pops up in IE when downloading a file? Based on my experience, it appears IE opens to the folder where the previous file was saved. I am working in an app written in Visual Foxpro and would like to set this folder so the user can open the browser directly to the specified website, and download a file into a specified folder without the user having to navigate to that folder, then the app will then detect the file and proceed. I thought setting the directory in the ShellExecute method arguments may work, but no luck. Does anyone know if this can be set programmatically? I suppose I could hack the registry to do this, but would rather not. Any ideas?

BTW, I posted this in VFP forum, but not much luck there.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[gigahertz]

The following windows script will set the download directory to C:\Download. Maybe you can adapt it to your language ...

Dim WSHShell
Set WSHShell=Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download Directory", "C:\Download", "REG_SZ"