Shell command

[Bill]

Why, when I type:

AppID = Shell("c:\program
files\accessories\backup\msbackup.exe", 1)

then try to run the command, do I get the error message
that "the file cannot be found"? If I copy and paste the
command between the quotation marks above into the
Windows "Start\Run" dialogue box MSBackup.exe opens as it
should. Is this specific to MSBackup? Is VBA prohibitted
from opening that app?

 

[Clint McGee]

What application are you executing this from within?
What OS are you using?
It could be the space in the path name...try making a
test.bat file in the "C:\program files\" folder and see if
you can Shell run that.

Clint