Arvin,

OK, a bit more detail.

Imagine you are sitting in front of the computer and Access is
displaying a form on screen. One of the Text fields is displaying a
pathname to a folder, say  "C:\My Documents\Access\Accounts\" for
example (actually it will normally be a path to a folder on a Server
PC).

Now I decide I want to delete one of the files in that folder so I
minimize Access (or click on the Show Desktop icon on the task bar
which does the same thing), I click the Windows Start button, then My
Computer, then double click C:\, then double click the My Documents
folder, then double click the Access folder, then double click the
Accounts folder which then shows me the contents of the Accounts
folder. Now I can delete the file (or whatever). With a Network system
it would be even more long winded. OK, the user can set up short cuts
to the 'root' folder to speedup the process a bit but there are
hundreds of subsidiary folders involved here.

The point is that I already know the pathname of the required folder
(it's stored in a Text box on the form) so I would like a button on
the same form which, when clicked, will, in effect perform all the
actions shown above, and open a window on the required folder.

I suppose another alternative (which may be acceptable to my client)
is to run Windows Explorer using the Shell command. Not sure how to do
that either as I would also need to pass the stored pathname to it
somehow.

Any ideas?

Peter Hibbs.