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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The MS documentation for ShellExecute clearly says that it can accept
> programs, not only documents.
>   

You are right, I see it now. It says that you can "open" an executable 
file ... ;-)

BTW the remarks also says that folder names for opening a folder should 
be absolute.