>>>VB runtime would ship with the OS long before the VFP runtime...and that doesn't happen. Don't count on this either.
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>>Actually that's not true. The NT Option Pack and Win98 both install the
>>VBRuntime, because some of the suppport applications are built with VB.
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>I don't consider the option pack as part of the OS (my opinion)...and I haven't installed Win 98 yet. Thanks for the info.

The option pack is like Service Pack 4 for NT. Or a pre-release of NT 5,
whatever you want to call it - it's an official NT Operating sytem component.

The VB Runtime will install with all future versions of Windows, just because
it was used to build some of the tools.

It may install with NT base installation even, but I'm not sure...

+++ Rick ---