Executing Windows Commands

[kaylabear]

Hello,

How do I go about telling Windows to perform certain tasks from within my VB application.

Such As: I require Windows to Delete some of the files that make up my program at a given time. Also I would like to set file attributes automatically via my application.

Any insight is greatly appreciated Thank You.

 

[RobBroekhuis]

Deleting files is easily done within VBA (see the Kill command). For others, the Shell function runs an external application from within VBA.
For example:

shell("attrib c:\hello.xls +r&quot

would set the read-only attribute for hello.xls
Rob