Hi Nicholas

I'm trying to write a simple program updater that goes through updates and copies them as needed. UPDATER.EXE that calls
say MAINAPPLICATION.EXE after copying updates.

BUT I realised that I need to be clever and maybe sometimes update the UPDATER.EXE itself as well as my Main App.

>>Hi
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>>I know how to run a shortcut from VFP, but now I need to QUIT my exe, copy a new EXE over the top of it and
>>restart the original shortcut that ran my Foxpro EXE in the 1st place.
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>>TAI
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>I think you'll need to wrap your exe in a launcher That way you can control what happens when you exit it (you'll still be in the launcher) and choose to overwrite the old exe and relaunch the new version.