>>>Oops. Sorry George. Looked too fast. I was setting the value of the variable holding the calling handle to 0 as you had asked. Perhaps I should send the Desktop handle?
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>>Hi again Bill,
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>>It's worth a try. Apparently (and this is a guess) the process is owned by the caller. Perhaps David F. or Christof can shed more light on this than I.
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>Thanks for the info. I tried passing the Desktop handle and it's still hosing on me. It would seem to have something to do with sub-processes of processes or something like that. Sort of yanking the rug out from under one of the processes. But my knowledge of this stuff minimal so I'm doing a good bit groping. I wonder if using CreateProcess() would matter. I've never used it.
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Hi Bill,

Why not RUN /N...? If that doesn't work, You might want to look at the file (or was it an FAQ) Ed Rauh posted for launching processes.