>I can copy my VFP app to a network shared folder with the VFP dlls all in a single folder. Then any user can run that VFP exe from their workstations without installing run-time dlls or doing any kind of dll registration at all on the local workstation (except non-VFP, 3rd party dll/ocx that we use).

I'd bet a network administrator would rather arrange to install an app and runtimes locally rather than have the runtimes running across the network..