Thanks for all comments so far.

I was rather hoping that someone would know of a function similar to TerminateProcess, but along the lines of TerminateProcess_Gracefully.

(I want to avoid using a COM object if possible).

In the meantime I'll go with the "Look for the presence of a file" approach.

Cyril




>Hi
>I just create a text file with the client app with a ClosingDown message in it, the second app checks this file and if it finds the closing down message it closes itself down. not very sexy but it works
>stuart