>I have a number of applications (about a dozen in all), all of which are launched from a network drive. Currently, each of these shows up on each user's desktop. (Well, not exactly --- each user has a subset of applications, and nobody has all of them.)
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>This is a maintenance annoyance, and I've been asked to find an alternative.
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>What I think I'd like to is something like this: a simple form, with a button for each application (limiting it for each user to those applications they're supposed to see). From this form, the users could launch some/all of the applications they normally use.
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>However, what I don't know how to do is to launch any application from my form, and still leave the form up so that it can launch other applications. I know that

Do AnyApplication.EXE

waits for AnyApplication to complete, whereas what I need is for it to start, and then still have my form available to start the next application.
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>Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hello James,

run /n Application.exe

will run any external application, leaving the current application open - and active.

IOW, you don't need any special precautions to keep the application open - the usual READ EVENTS (or modal form, as an alternative) is enough.

HTH,

Hilmar.