>>Do you mean that you tried to make all the calls on one object and VFP gave an error? What error?
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>WScript = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
>WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>WshShell.Run("calc")
>WScript.Sleep(100)
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>The fourth line causes the error (translated from Spanish): "OLE Error Code 0x80020006: Unknown Name".
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>Hilmar.

Ahh, ok. I think that the sleep method is only available in the scripting environment. For a script file, it's your only choice (you can't use the API). For your case, I would use Alexander's suggestion of using the Sleep API function.