>>>>
>>>>It's hard to make other suggestions without seeing what the actual parameters are. Could you post them?
>>>
>>> hKey = 0
>>> retval = RegOpenKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "Minitab.mpj\shell\open\command", @hKey)
>>> valuename = Space(255)
>>> valuelen = 255
>>> STORE 0 TO lpdwReserved,dataType, xindex
>>> Store Space(255) to indata
>>> datalen = Len(indata)
>>
>>Is the value returned by RegOpenKey equal to zero (ERROR_SUCCESS)? If not, the key may not exist.
>
>Sorry hit reply before i oculd finish my changes but
>
>Value returned is 0 and hkey changes to different numbers per run. It does find the key
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = -2147483648

OH yeah, AND this program DOES work in win 95,98!!!!!!!