You can use the windows START command to start your app.

If this is something you need to do somewhat frequently, you can start your program from a CMD file such as..

REM Beginning of MYLOADER.CMD
:TOP
delete restart.fil

myprogram.exe

IF EXIST restart.fil GOTO TOP
:END

REM End of MYLOADER.CMD

Then anytime you want to exit your program and have it immediately restart, have the program create a file called restart.fil and exit. The CMD file will pop back to the TOP label, clear the file, and restart your program.


>>>Isn't there a way, perhaps using a Windows API, to exit a program and tell Windows to immediately restart it?
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>>Do you want the program to exit itself and launch another instance or have another program force it to close?
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>>If the program doesn't close (busy, locked up, whatever) how agressive do you want to be to close it? (end task, etc....)
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>Well, I kind of figured I could do something similar to what Dragan suggested before I even posted, but was thinking there was an API call designed for this. Anyway, I went ahead and implemented it using a Restart property on my application object. If Restart gets set to true - in this case due to a newer version of the program being downloaded - then the app does not finish loading and immediately before closing it uses ShellExecute to start itself again. This works. I thought I'd heard of a specific API for this type of thing, but maybe I was hallucinating.