art wrote:sharp,
little OT,
runhidden should never stay open in the background, the only time it does (at least to me) is when there is something wrong with the batch file itself. I just re-red your first post in "Windows ME running batch files" where you said that your "MS DOS window sticks open after executes command", I don't know how I missed this the first time I red it , but check your batch file see if it starts with "@echo off" and ends with exit, you can also add CLS before exit. If that won't help or you already have those commands in your file post your batch file in "Windows ME running batch files".
Didn't check batch file yet but I think everything is OK...after we made the changes the other night everything was working great. I had to deactivate the runhidden.exe file to get Steve's exe file error messages to work, it just took me a bit to think of your runhidden.exe file closing everything before I was able to see the errors.