>Hi there. My computer illiterate users keep opening up my VFP6 .exe thereby cluttering up the desktop with multiple instances of the .exe
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>If my .exe is already loaded once, how can I stop a second instance of the .exe from loading?
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>Much obliged!

Hi Ken,

In addition to what Erik mentioned, I wrote an article about his in the Nov. 1998 issue of FoxPro Advisor. The entire article, including code is available on-line at their web site.