Works perfect Tommy. MY VB6 newbiness is obvious. Using the object browser I did trial PrevInstance, and path and a few other app things before going the alternative route posted. I couldn't get PrevInstance to work. I now realize that the project has to be made into a .exe, packaged and deployed, and installed before PrevInstance will work ie. you can't test its' use by running the program from VB6 while having an instance of the program running. Thanks for getting rid of all that extra code that I didn't need. Have a great wkend! Dave