Duane Clark a écrit : > > As the comment to ShellExecute states, there can be placeholders in > commandlines retrieved from the registry. For example, MS Installer has > this string: [snip] Hi Duane, It would be better IMO to merge actually ShellExecute and ShellExecuteEx Most of what you need is already in ShellExecute but not in ShellExecuteEx (of course, ShellExecute should call ShellExecuteEx, but this isn't done yet) A+