>Hi Dmitry,
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>What are the chances that there's a stray "SET LIBRARY TO" with no parameters somewhere in the code? That could cause your previously DECLARE'd ShellExecute to be un-declared which VFP would interpret as a missing ShellExecute.prg. That would also explain why it works some of the time, but not others.
Eric,
I didn't think SET LIBRARY TO can close a DLL.
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