I have absolutely no experience with Citrix, but I guess it has something like a PATH statement which you could set so that also your VfpCommon directory is searched?

>I think not. At least, as it is now, I have nothing on the local machine, everything on the servers & Citrix.
>
>I want to simplify this - not complicate it - further by having a VfpCommon dir with all the common stuff in one place on the network.
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>>Then I suggest that you crate a "loader" program which
>>1. Checks whether the necessary files are located in the defined directory on the local machine
>>2. If not, copies the newer files from the server to the defined local directory
>>3. Starts the EXE from the local machine
>>
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>>>Yes, me too, but that's exactly what I'd like to avoid. As the number of apps grows, this is not a very satisfying solution.
>>>
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>>>>Place the runtime files in the same directory as your EXE, no registration is required! I have done it for years, works wothout any problem.
>>>>
>>>>>We've got a number of VFP apps running off our network servers & Citrix.
>>>>>
>>>>>Rather than copying the VFP runtime stuff to each .exe / dir, a potential maintenance nightmare, I'd like to place it all in a VfpCommon dir.
>>>>>
>>>>>Our support people have tried all sorts of stuff with the path & even registering the .dll's. So far with no luck, so they've given up.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can not locate VFP support library, it says.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why would that be? And what should I tell them to do?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA & BR