David, I tried the following and, likely due to my misunderstanding of API calls and associated programs, I get an error because it can't find the ShellExecute program. Is this in a fox tools library? Regards, Renoir

declare long GetDesktopWindow in"win32api"
local hDCScreen
hDCScreen = GetDesktopWindow()
? ShellExecute( hDCScreen, "open", "mailto:DavidFrankenbach@worldnet.att.net", "", "c:\", 1 )


>declare long GetDesktopWindow in"win32api"
>
>local hDCScreen
>
>hDCScreen = GetDesktopWindow()
>
>>I got an error with 'hDCScreen'?