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By simulating the pressing of the "Windows" menu - or better yet, of the Ctrl-Escape key combination, which also works on older keyboards - you can programmatically bring up the Start menu. You can't use the SendKeys function to do so, though, and you have to resort to the keybd_event API function: Click here to copy the following block Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, _   ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long) Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2 ' Press the Ctrl-Esc key keybd_event vbKeyControl, 0, 0, 0 keybd_event vbKeyEscape, 0, 0, 0 DoEvents ' Release the two keys keybd_event vbKeyControl, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0 keybd_event vbKeyEscape, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0 DoEvents

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