[AccessD] Copy and execute from Access

William,

What I am trying to do is have a shortcut open a program and keep it invisible.  That program copies 
a bunch of files, then opens a second program, whereupon the first program shuts down.

The shortcut properties invisible / minimized cause the first program to never appear.  The first 
program puts up a "working, be patient" splash screen while it is opening the second program.

Stuart's suggestion was to use the invisible / minimized properties of the shortcut to cause the 
first program to not ever even be visible, which is what I was after.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 12/24/2011 4:49 PM, William Benson wrote:
> I am asking how do you run a shortcut in code. Isn't john doing this with
> vba?
>
> TIA for answering my question so I can follow along.
> On Dec 24, 2011 4:44 PM, "jwcolby"<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>  wrote:
>
>> That worked perfectly Stuart.  I set the shortcut visible attribute to
>> false and then set the Run Minimized attribute and I never even see the
>> CopyAndRun open.  I now have a splash form that opens to say "be patient"
>> and off we go.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> Colby Consulting