>Hi Peter,
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>>Yes, this is one possibility, but you can also distribute them together with the application by putting copies in the application's folder. This is what I prefer personally.
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>I'm happy to speak with you on the topic of Molebox since I too am a big fan of this product.
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>I can understand why you ship your VFP runtimes seperately.
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>As for me, I like binding the VFP runtimes into my main Molebox EXE because I'm paranoid that users may mistakenly delete or overwrite runtime files stored seperately on disk. I also enjoy the convenience of having a "single file" main EXE to distribute.
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>Let's continue to speak up about this (Molebox) great product!

I hope your users don't delete your main exe. :)

Inclusion is fine and legitimate, of course. But the drawback may be that updates always have to include these megamonsters. And I don't see a gain in encrypting these MS-proprietary files. Also, compressing is not my motive for using Molebox, because Innosetup does compress also. Moreover, compressing would imply that they have to be decompressed on every start of a session.