Hi Ed,

Thanks for the help again.

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>SendMessage() is a Win32 API call that sends a standard message to a specific Window; there are samples of how to use it in various entries in the FAQ under Win32 and Other AIs, mostly stuff by George Tasker. There have been several threads about this in the past several months.
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>API_APPRUN can also shut down anything that it starts up, but it uses TerminateProcess() to do this, and that's a messy shutdown - it simply blows away the process and doesn't allow it to try to initiate an orderly shutdown like SendMessage() might allow using a WM_CLOSE message. However, terminateProcess() always works, regardless of the type of app running,and regardless of whether the app is capable of processing standard Windows messages (great for killing things that get locked up in an infinite loop, for example.)
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