>>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).
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>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..

I'll take that bet :) I dont think its been an issue lately, networks are so fast these days. And the apps load up and stay up. We really have not found a problem or a performance issue either. Years ago there were sometimes problems like that but I have not had an issue the last few years really. The dlls and exe file are a few meg in size and are nothing compared to the hundreds of megabytes of data they pull out of our systems.