Thanx for clearing that up about the directories, about opening up explorer that was just an example. Its just that im working on a research with a teacher I took a materials class with and I have to develop a software.Thing is, I wanted to open up (or maybe link so it would be only one executable) a simple program I developed in VB (just for the looks) from my more extensive C++ code (my strong area so its easier to do the hard parts with it). Thanx for the help guys