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   Dean Earley to All   
   Re: Checking what's already running?   
   30 Aug 06 09:10:36   
   
   From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   D & J G wrote:   
   > Bit of a newbie question..   
   > Is there a VB6 way of telling what is already running?  E.g. if a VB6   
   > program has been minimized and selected again, the minimized one maximizes,   
   > instead of having the same thing running twice simultaneously.   
      
   You can use App.PrevInstance to see if the same executable is already   
   running.   
   The easy way to activate the other version is AppActivate and SendKeys,   
   but the proper way is to use some form of IPC like DDE.   
      
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