Thanks for the suggestion. As it turned out the problem seems to be related to a "loader" app I created. Works fine when the exe is stared directly but apparently I have something in the loader that is causing me grief... I have variations of it loading other apps but this is probably one of the original versions of it.

>Jim:
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>Try changing the CTRL+C to CTRL+Z or any other rare letter and check if work, if this is the case you have another application in the backgroud running that change the system definition for CTRL+C.