>I love VFP myself, but this time I had to develope the application with VB.NET. Thanks for the post though, because I may need it later on in a VFP app. Since I am developing in VB.NET though, how to I use SHELL to start a new process within my application.


Take a look at :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchasyncprocvb.asp

This may help you.

Also just noticed where you are located. I grew up not far from there. Made lots of trips to Freedom Hall for concerts in those years.