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>Well, shell32.dll is an essential file of the OS. It is used by Explorer which is Windows' main user interface. The OS wouldn't allow to delete the file.
>Yes, you're right. It might fail for other reasons and it doesn't hurt to catch the exception. You might want to add code in Error event or On Error too, wherever is appropriate. My philosophy is to trap every single error if possible and handle them appropriately.
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>I use ShellExecute in my app too, so far I havn't had any problem or errors reported from that ( I log run time errors in a dbf).
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>HTH
Thank you very much for your helpful input.
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