>Naomi,
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>If you DO the launched app/exe it will run under the runtime of STAB no matter what the app was compiled under.
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>You'd be better off if you used ShellExecute() to spawn the app/exe as a separate Windows process then it'll use what ever runtime it needs.

What's the genral approach here? Is it recommended to use ShellExecute for this sort of scenario?

So far we just recompiled the STAB since we're using exe for our company. But if it would be for external clients it would be a problem.

Thanks again.