>Is it possible in VFP5 (itself) to set up a desktop icon to be installed during the install from distro disks that contains info pointing to the apps .cfg file?
>Or does this take a 3rd party app to accomplish?

You can create a Shortcut (an .LNK file) in several ways; the Win32API contains a family of functions (IShellLink) that will manipulate them, but VFP requires a wrapper .DLL to be put in between itself and the API to make the call because of the IShellLink API parameter passing methods. George Tasker recently released a wrapper to handle this here on UT; FoxPro Advisor also had a wrapper .DLL in one of their prior issues (it doesn't have the functionality that George's does). In addition, there are several freeware executables (like SHORTCUT.EXE from the Win95 Resource Kit) that will do this based on command line switches.

Locating the current Desktop can best be accomplished by examining the registry; the registry key "\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER contains a REG_SZ (registry string) called Desktop that points at the currently-logged in user's Desktop folder (important under NT or with 95/98 and user profiles enabled, since not all users share the same Desktop.)

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>TIA,
>Dan