*** Quoting Chris Downs from a message to Nauman Abbasi ***
CD>  You also need to add some more backslashes to you path stuff.  You
CD>  need to do something like
CD>  "c:\\path\\program...."
So you are saying I should try this:
retval=Shell(c:\\windows\\calc.exe 0)
(or something close to that)
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