[dsenette]

one above the other...

also...sorry but i didn't mention it...you have to put the path's in quotes

like "c:\program files\microsoft office\office11\outlook.exe"

you have to do this because of the spaces in the path

also...at the end of the batch file put the word pause by itself...this will keep it from dissapearing

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lol kinda worked. . .

well it WILL open both programs so thats a good sign.

however it will only open outlook, then right when I close outlook, ypops opens!!!

It also opens c prompt and it shows the outlook path.
when i close outlook then it shows the ypops path and ypops opens.
I checked my running processes (to see if ypops is running as a background process) but ypops wasn't open.(while outlook was open)

[Tim'A]

lol kinda worked. . .

well it WILL open both programs so thats a good sign.

however it will only open outlook, then right when I close outlook, ypops opens!!!

It also opens c prompt and it shows the outlook path.
when i close outlook then it shows the ypops path and ypops opens.
I checked my running processes (to see if ypops is running as a background process) but ypops wasn't open.(while outlook was open)

[stettybet0]

are you sure you put pause at the end and not in between the 2 addresses?

[dsenette]

should have worked...but i can see why it might not....give me some time today to rework

[dsenette]

ok the batch is waiting for the first process to dispose of itself...before starting the next one...SO...let's just go around that
go here and download PSTools (link is at the bottom of the page and it comes in a zip file)...extract PSexec.exe to the C:\drive (the root of C:\)

now to construct a batch using psexec you would put something like the following code (i'm going to open outlook and filezilla...just as an example...replace my paths with the paths to your programs)

c:\psexec.exe -d -i "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" 
c:\psexec.exe -d -i "C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"
pause

i put the pause in there for testing...once you verify that the batch works...you can remove it so that the cmd window closes once it's done

i love psexecute...it's wonderfull stuff