>George the thread starts at http://www.levelextreme.com/cgi-bin/vfpwebn.exe?2,15,125623
>
I just looked at it, David. I've got Outlook Express, but there are no extensions associated with it in my registry (which is where I presume FindExecutable looks). Hopefully, I'll be done with my IShellLink DLL within the next few days. Using that, you could recurse the desktop, start menu, etc. and examine the lnk files until you found the appropriate one. Then you could either just do a RUN /N with the file and parameters, or simple send the whole link file to ShellExecute. Waddya think?