Hi Borislav

Nearly there, tried your code on a simple foxpro exe on my desktop and works fine.

But when I run it on the Windows 2003 server with the VPN connection shortcut I get:-

OLE Error code 0x80070057: the parameter is incorrect.

Any ideas

TIA

>>Whoops! Lets start again!
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>>Hi! I'm writing a transfer program that makes use of a VFP link.
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>>At times the VPN link gets disconnected for varous reasons.
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>>I have a shortcut set up to connect the vpn link. Can I run this icon from a Foxpro program if the VPN link appears to be down?
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>>Many thanks in advance
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>o1 = CREATEOBJECT([wscript.shell])
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>*** If this shotcut is placed in All Users Desktop folder cghange following line to
>*** lcUserDeskTop = o1.SpecialFolders(0)
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>lcUserDeskTop = o1.SpecialFolders(4)+[\MyFile.LNK]
>Declare INTEGER GetShortPathName IN WIN32API STRING lpszLongPath, STRING @lpszShortPath, INTEGER lBuffer
>LOCAL lcShortName
>lcShortName = SPACE(254)
>lnReturn = GetShortPathName(lcUserDeskTop,@lcShortName,254)
>o1.Run(LEFT(lcShortName,lnReturn),3,.f.)
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