If I'm understanding correctly (I'm not certain I am, your description is anything but clear) something like this might help (you can wait on a process handle): STARTUPINFO si = { sizeof(si) }; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; BOOL bOk = CreateProcess( _T("C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe"), NULL, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi ); if (bOk) { CloseHandle(pi.hThread); // We don't need so don't leak it! WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE); CloseHandle(pi.hProcess); // We're finished with it. MessageBox(NULL, \_T("Finished"), \_T("Create and wait"), MB\_OK); } Steve

There are at least two problems with your code: 1. there is no delay in your loop, it will sprint from 0 to 1 as fast as it can, all will be over in a fraction of a second. 2. the Form isn't visible while the Load handler is executing; it is only when Load is done that the Form becomes visible, so this is the wrong place for such loop. The recommended solution to both these issues is as follows: - give your Form an initial opacity of zero; - in your Load handler, start a Windows.Forms.Timer with an interval of say 100 msec; - in the timer's Tick handler, check the Form's opacity; if it is less than 1.0, add 0.05 to it; otherwise, stop the timer. The reason you choose a Windows.Forms.Timer is that its events get handled by the main thread, and that is the only thread that is allowed to touch Controls and Forms. Other timers would tick on some threadpool thread, resulting in either some InvalidCrossThread exception, or the need for more code, based on Control.Invoke Also notice there is no explicit loop anywhere; the timer will keep firing until you tell it to stop (when opacity reached 1.0). :) Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Glad you got it sorted out. :) The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Hi, I am very happy to hear that you went straight to MSDN to get your answers. That is definitely a working recipe for becoming a better software engineer. When you are reading these MSDN function descriptions... always scroll to the bottom... the MSDN almost always gives which library the function is being exported from (in this case Advapi32.dll) and the minimum operating system/service pack required. You have obviously already discovered that the minimum OS is Vista for this function. If you already have an access token then you should use the CreateProcessAsUser function[^] Lucidation wrote: So what do I need to do to either make this work on XP, or else drop back to using CreateProcessAsUser on Windows XP, but still use CreateProcessWithTokenW on Windows 7? I would personally recommend using CreateProcessAsUser for both scenarios. Why create two code paths? CreateProcessAsUser should work for XP all the way to Win7Sp1. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

I did not know that, been tokenizing m_lpCmdLine myself. +5 for the info.

Off topic: Please use <pre></pre> tags around your code (use the code block button above) rather than bolding. On topic : Changing the contents of your MyDynamicText variable does not force it to refresh the label on your form. You also need to resend it to this->labelDynamicText->Text as was done in the initialisation. Note also that your counter will run very fast rather than taking 60 seconds, you probably need to use a timer or sleep() call. It's time for a new signature.

Instead of manually copuing the required CRT files, you might want to look into using a Setup and Deployment project. Right-click on the project and select Add Merge Module, and select the module corresponding to the CRT file you listed above. If there are any components your app depends on, you can add those to the project as well. When the user runs the generated setup.exe file, it will autoamtically install the prerequisites (including the merge module), and then install your app. Regarding the prerequistes, there's a handy utility here[^] that allows you to build custom prerequisite packages for VS. Dybs The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

Wohoo! That did it. Thanks!

I posted my question in the other forum (adding some additional info as suggested). Thanks!