How to do keyboard shortcuts to an external program?

Hi everyone,
i'm developing a program in labview that reads files created from an external program (an usb oscilloscope interface) and analyzes them.
That problems is that I need to start manually, before, the acquisition of data on the oscilloscope interface and than I have to start the labview program; that's not really elegant and efficient, so I whish to know if it's possibile to let my labview program open the oscilloscope interface and tell to it to start the acquisition.
Now, the exec subvi let me start the program, but I dont know how to start the acquisition.
With the oscilloscope interface as active window I can start the acquisition with the keyboard shortcuts ctrl-t ctr-g. Is it possible to let the program send to windows the request of execute those keyboard shortcuts on the active window?
The oscilloscope doesnt have any ActiveX interface.
Sorry for my bad english,
and thank you for the help,
filippo

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