Contributor: BEN LICHT The first point I would make is that you went to an awful lot of trouble to implement the WinExec API call... cleaner code would look like: begin winexec('C:\Program.exe', SW_SHOWNORMAL); end; Delphi automatically treats this as a null-terminated string (like c). As to the answer to your question. WinExec returns a handle to the task. Simply do the following: procedure SomeProc; var ProgramHandle : THandle; begin ProgramHandle := WinExec('C:\Program.exe', SW_SHOWNORMAL); while GetModuleusage(ProgramHandle) <> 0 do application.processmessages; {The above line will loop until the program terminates} {continue on with program below here} end;