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Nice tutorial, but you seem to have overlooked something. How do I launch My Computer? Explorer with no parameter opens My Documents, Explorer mycomp~1 and Explorer ""My Computer"" both say the directory doesn't exist. (This is on XP Pro BTW.)

is there a possibility for me to open a program to another pc. im thinking like a server client program where the server opens the client or other program from the other terminal...??

I want my program to wait till Shell or shellexecute command finishes zipping a file of size say 500mb. Please let me know the solution.
Thanks,

Hi,
very compliments for your tuttorial, it's very clarity.
I have another question, now.
The command "sendkeys" send data to the active application
in this moment.
I need to send data (key) to an aplication that is just
running, but in background, in minimize state.

It's possible to make this?
Thanks in advantage.

DaxDax

Hey, I have a memory leak problem. My application has to run different programs. For example, when the user has to run Notepad, he just clicks on the button on my program and my program runs Notepad... Simple and straightforward. The problem is that the user might have to run Notedpad several times throughout the day, and when you look at the memory usage for my program on Task Manager, the size increases every time the user decides to run Notepad (even though he closes it after he's through using it). My question is: how would I release the memory used by my program for Notepad when the user closes Notepad? I need this so that I could keep the same memory usage, cause if the user decides to run Notepad 100 times, and then close all of those, that's a whole lotta memory used up for nothing...

I would really appreciate any help,
Thank you

Is there anyway of using information gathered from drive/dir/file list boxes in the path when using Shell? I have tried but I think I have the wrong syntax even though VB6 does not complain.

I have the same situation and would appreciate your sharing any answer.

Did you check this site?

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=6071&lngWId=1

This Method Works Well But My Problem is That I want to Open The

Explorer File(s) (.html or htm)  In New Window(new instance of IE for

every file) every time I clicked on the Different file.

aaftab wrote:

This Method Works Well But My Problem is That I want to Open The Explorer File(s) (.html or htm) In New Window(new instance of IE for every file) every time I clicked on the Different file.