I have a macro in Excel that does the following:

Application.Run "page1sym.xls!SaveIt"
Dim ProcessID As Long
Dim file2run As String
file2run = ("c:\pag_base\name.exe") &&& this is a vfp program
ProcessID = Shell(file2run, 1)

The problem is that each time Excel runs this macro, VFP briefly present a
window when it starts name.exe. This is irritating. Is there a way to prevent
this window from displaying each time the name.exe runs.