1. You must use double quotes instead of single quotes as delimiters for your string. Single quotes are delimiters for single characters.
2. In C/C++ the backslash char is reserved char used to specify special characters (like an escape code). Here is a short list of special chars (there are many of them :)):

\ -> \\
CR -> \n
Tab -> \t
Ascii code zero -> \0

So, you need WinExec("c:\\windows\\notepad.exe",SW_SHOWNORMAL)...

Vlad


>In Visual C++ 5.0, I have a WinExec() statement used to start an EXE. It goes like this: WinExec('notepad.exe',SW_SHOWNORMAL). This works fine. However, as soon as I try to put a full path, Visual C++ returns an error at build time. I can't do something like this: WinExec('c:\windows\notepad.exe',SW_SHOWNORMAL).