>To wait for Notepad to finish you need to remember to call the waitforexit method of the process you started. You can also set window size etc using System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo.
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> '
>    ' Start a new process (Notepad).
>    '
>    Dim myProcess As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("MyTextFile.txt")
>    '
>    ' Wait until it ends.
>    '
>    myProcess.WaitForExit()
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>    MessageBox.Show("Notepad ended: " & myProcess.ExitTime & "." & _
>        System.Environment.NewLine & "Exit Code: " & myProcess.ExitCode)
>    '
>    ' Close the process to free resources.
>    '
>    myProcess.Close()
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Thanks for the additional information.