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That makes a lot of sense. thanks. I'll add that to the long, long list of why I ban ActiveX and .NET from my projects.

The root loop is definitely per process. It’s simply the primary thread started up by Windows for a process in which the GetMessage(), TranslateMessage(), DispatchMessage() Windows API calls are made over and over again, with minor LabVIEW specific adaptions. This thread is associated with a hidden window whose window procedure then translates everything into a Platform independant message infrastructure that very much resembles the Mac classic message loop. This is basically the famous root loop with the message procedure in the hidden window being a sort of platform wrapper around it. Under Windows there comes in a potential extra complication as the OLE marshalling hooks into the process GetMessage() API, completely outside the control of LabVIEW. So if you interface with OLE/COM/ActiveX and to some extend even .Net compenents things can get interesting,

My vague understanding is that labview exes are basically special zip files with an executable header tacked on with the instruction to load the labview runtime. The runtime then takes over and loads the code. This obviously changes with the fast file format, but the general concept is probably about the same. Point being, the exe is still a separate OS process, it just happens to immediately load up a copy of the lvruntime dll which can be shared.