>it seems to me that your clients should not be mucking around in your >application folder. can not you give them permissions of readonly on your >folder. if you have no security then they can delete your exe.

my clients in this case, are in-house employees. I am just a bit paranoid about security (I write a lot on UNIX and security is a big deal). I'll play with teh idea maybe this week, and perhaps post some code.

Tim