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Look at MoveFileEx in WinAPI help.
This performs delayed deletes - when windows reboots.
HTH Pete

"Steve Craig" <stevecraig@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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Ed

Thanks for the response.  I tried your suggestion but it's still exhibiting
the same problem. It is very strange behavior, the file is not accessible, I
can't rename, copy or delete the file until I reboot. BTW I am using BCB 5.0
on windows 2000.
Anyway, I am going to try a different (although a little clumsy) alternative
using a bat file.  Thanks again...

Steve

"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <ed@mulroyREMOVETHESECHARS.org> wrote in message
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> You might try using CreateProcess and telling it to create a new process
> group.  Windows protects the exe files of executing programs.
>
> When using the spawn* family that program will default to being part of
the
> same process group as the program that spawned it.  The file may be
> protected until the calling process is ended.  With a new process group
you
> have a chance of being able to delete it after it finishes running.
>
> You will need to use some semaphore or mutex call such as
> WaitForSingleObject to detect when the program is no longer running.
>
> When asking something like this it would be useful if you mentioned what
> operating system and version and what compiler and version are being used.
>
> .  Ed