>>snip<<
>>Then I tried to reset the WINDOWS default printer back to the way it was by passing a different printer name string to the same method
>>AND IT LOCKS UP. I have to press CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out.
>Dan,
>
>Do you use SendMessage() to tell the open applications to reload that (windows) section?

Thanks for your quick reply.
I have never used the SendMessage() API call. Can you give me some additional data on it?