>I have a readme file from Microsoft that says you can send users to a website to get DCom98 or distribute it with your application.
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>I would like to distribute it with my application and I am using the VFP 6 setup wizard. If DCom98 is not installed on the machine I get the "Fatal Error" when the setup program is executed but the install will continue.
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>Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can detect if DCom98 needs to be installed and install that first?

DCOM has been installed if the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE has a registry value EnableDCOM present with a value of "Y". It may have been installed explicitly from the DCOM executable, or as a part of the IE 4.0 installation.

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>Microsoft says that the machine needs to be rebooted after the install . . . Is that capable in the VFP 6 setup wizard?

The VFP Setup Wizard install is not capable of managing a split install; I've usually used an InstallShield or Windows Scripting Host script to manage the DCOM install, or left it as a responsibility of the installer prior to performing the VFP install.