Hi Steve,

Sounds like something got screwed in the registry. Would outlook pop up if you type 'mailto:s_tysinger@northstate.com' into IE addressbar?

>I am launching an email message via
>

	
>		LOCAL lcEmail, lcCCAddress, lcSubject, lcMessagebody
>		lcEmailAddress = 's_tysinger@northstate.net'
>		lcCCAddress = " "
>		lcSubject = "Serial Number Request For Tooling Wizard"
>		lcMessageBody = 'Hardware ID: '+thisform.oapp.zgethdd()+CHR
(11)+CHR(13)+CHR(11)+CHR(13)+;
>			thisform.txtmy3.getvalue()+CHR(11)+CHR(13)
+thisform.txtmy4.getvalue()+CHR(11)+CHR(13)+;
>			thisform.txtmy5.getvalue()+CHR(11)+CHR(13)
+thisform.txtmy7.getvalue()+CHR(11)+CHR(13)
>
>		ShellExecute(0, "", "mailto:" + lcEmailAddress + "?Subject=" + lcSubject + ;
>		                    "&CC=" + lcCCAddress + "&body=" + 
lcMessageBody, "", "", 1)

>
>but it fails on one of my windows 98 machines, it just does nothing, no errors nothing. There is a default email client, I check for that first. In this case the client is OUTLOOK.