>>Has anyone ever run across a way to determine if an application is already running and prevent it from being started a 2nd or 3rd or .... time. We have some users that forget that they have minimized an app and start it again...causes some interesting problems.
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>>Thanks,
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>Bill,
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>I couple of years ago, I wrote an article on this for FoxPro Advisor. Check out Create Single-Instance Applications in the November, 1998 issue. Unfortunately, it is no longer available on-line.

George,

What's wrong with Ed's approach (see API section CreateEvent)? Seems to work fine.