>Hi guys ---
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>Thanks for the help. What resolved the problem was Ed Rauh's ShellExecute wrapper classlib called Process.VCX. An excellent application and saved my butt from messing around with ShellExecute from scratch.

Of course it did! But a hint - it uses CreateProcess() rather than ShellExecute() to run things. There are minor differences; ShellExecute() can launch a document as well as an executable, but CreateProcess() gives you tighter control of the process, and returns some information that allows you to monitor the progress of a launched executable (you can get the same information back using ShellExecuteEx(), but you'd need something like POINTERS or My CLSHEAP library to manage the structure needed by ShellExecuteEx().)