>You see, I don't want the application itself installed on the PC. The
>application and data will reside on the server. I only want the files needed
>to support the application to be installed on the PC. Therefore, I hope to
>indentify which files are needed on the PC in order to run a VFP EXE on a
>server.

How about running setup wizard on a generic empty (but for one text file) directory. then have each client run this setup (only has to be done once) and now they can all run any VFP app you roll out on the server. It's what I do here and fairly headache free.