David,
They may be one in the same - I think ShellExecute calls CreateProcess. There may be more options with CreateProcess since it's at a lower level. We use both in our setup program for our web apps: CreateProcess to Stop/Start the web server and ShellExecute to start the default browser..


>Claude,
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>ShellExecute can run both internal and external DOS commands (check the samples on my site). The visibility of the spawned window is controlled by the last argument to the function call.
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>>Added benefit of CreateProcess is that it'll even run DOS commands invisibly.