>Bruce, that depends. Does your launcher EXE start the second EXE with a DO second.EXE or RUN second.EXE. If it's RUN, no problem, they are running separately. If it's DO, then they're both running within the same copy of the runtime.
Yes, it's a RUN /N that I have.
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.