>Hello Tracy,
>I want to run a do loop to see it is cleared from the process then i can start another program.
>
>because i dont want to run another program when the instance is still in the process(task manager)
>
>Thank you.

See the late Ed Rauh's API_APPRUN in .VCX form File #9477

This will allow you to start your third party Exe and specifiy whether you want execution to pause until the other Exe is finished or continue running without waiting. If you choose the latter then you can still poll the process to wait for it to finish.