>Thanks Mike,
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>It's been my experience that people panic when they see the dialogs, but they will get used to them. Windows 7 will be new to all of these people. A dialog for the actual copy of the new version acceptable since that only happens once or twice a year. If I use shellexecute to start the exe after the copy though, that will initate a second one that is actually unnecessary since the app itself runs with standard user privileges. Is there a way around that?

No I don't think so. Not if it is planned correctly. You can pop-up the dialog once to copy the update and within the same elevated state start the executable. That is if these two actions are done closely together.