This is the most nearly complete article of the ShellExecute() function on PSC. I compiled this using various articles from MSDN. Code examples include opening ...

Running any of the doc subcommands opens a new command prompt, but does not display the docs. I've tested this from cmd.exe, powershell.exe, and the MSYS2 shell. Let me know if you need any other info ...

This issue involves how ShellExecute handles strings that appear to be legitimate URLs, but are malformed such that they result in execution of arbitrary code. Various technologies use ShellExecute to ...

You don't, ShellExecute doesn't have the functionality you want. You could use ShellExecuteEx asking for the process handle return and polling until that process terminates if you wanted.