The differences between the Professional and Home editions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 are rather subtle. But one tool that is missing from the Home version is the Group Policy Editor (Gpedit). This ...

I am using Sys_ShellExecute to print PDFs and cannot reliably change the destination printer using Sys_SetDefPrinter. It seems (most of the time) that the first printer I select is recognized, but if ...

Occasionally I am getting a hard crash when executing ocdimg.exe with ShellExecute and console output display enabled. When it crashes it always happens at the end of the ISO build and produces an ...

This issue involves how ShellExecute handles strings that appear to be legitimate URLs, but are malformed such that they result in execution of arbitrary code. Various technologies use ShellExecute to ...

You don't, ShellExecute doesn't have the functionality you want. You could use ShellExecuteEx asking for the process handle return and polling until that process terminates if you wanted.