>>I don't know if they install them identically. This is farily big organization and I can't say that they know themself.
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>>As far as registry, I am reluctant to hack into the registry on their computer. I may (or may not) make my application work but the liability is such that I may be responsible for any other problem they have with this PC (with some other application).
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>Keep a list of operations done as an undo list. :-)
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>Actually, I don't recommend hacking into the registry. But it may be easy to see that a particular DLL is registered on one machine, and not on another, causing a silent failure.
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In this case I will need to know which DLLs to check for in the registry. Since I am there are tons of DLLs registered on a typical computer. Thank you.
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