Mark--

>do you need the mapped network drive for your app or can you do without it? we have an app written in 2.6 that needed them but when we upgraded to 7 we forgot to map drives during testing and it still worked fine through the network without the mapping
>Slán
>~M
>

Life would be easier with a mapped drive ('cause the app starts by looking at an INI file with the location of my data and the code that reads the INI file wants a drive letter and colon. Yuri's ShellExecute sounds like the thing to do.

Thanks for the input.


Tim