I have a somewhat flat learning curve - sorry. I'll catch on eventually.

I have extracted something in my collection of codes that works fine - seems a little shorter that sergey's:

#DEFINE SW_SHOWNORMAL 1
lcUrl = "c:\mydir"
oShell = Createobject("wscript.shell")
oShell.Run(lcUrl)
DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
INTEGER hwnd, STRING lpVerb, STRING lpFile, ;
STRING lpParameters, STRING lpDirectory, LONG nShowCmd
ShellExecute(0, "Open", lcUrl, "", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL)

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