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I realize this will be a tad vague, but I do think the issue can be thought through without detailed code.

I install my application using ShellExecuteWait - From what i understand the script stops until the Shell has finished with what it needs to do then proceeds.

After the install finishes, I try to launch it using Run()

I then get an error that the application is already running.

I have tried putting a sleep timer between when it installs the application and then runs it, but this seems limited. I don't think this will work every time because the length of the sleep statement really sleeps for is somewhat dependent on how fast the computer is handles the sleep statement.

When i have tried using the sleep statement sometimes i get the application is already running error and sometimes not depending on the speed of computer.

I have also tried creating a loop to read the process ID, and wait for it to close before the script continues, but this still doesn't work. I have come to the assumption that Microsoft windows has a generic bug. It shuts down the process ID before it finishes unloading the application from memory resulting in my program colliding with itself.

Thanks for your help.

Thawee

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Isn't it the case where the install program you launch does run its own child process(es)? In that case the install program may well finish, close, return while there are cild process(es) not yet finished.

Maybe a bit of monitoring with process explorer will reveal what happens in your case.

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You need to investigate to determine which process the install program is going to launch, and use Run instead of RunWait so that you get control as soon as the Installer runs. Then you should be able to use ProcessWait and ProcessWaitClose. See helpfile for usage.

That's likely to be the cleanest way to deal properly with such situation. This is also along the lines of the last remark under the RunWait function in the helpfile.

I'm not saying that this is always the case, nor that the sketch above will solve your issue, but many installers merely run an unpacker, which drops (say) an .msi file which is then "shellexecuted" or something like that.

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