>>>I use certain activeX controls that say they require certain DLLs to be present. If I include these DLLs in the setup will the Wizard check for newer versions on the target machine or just overwrite regardless?? Thanks in advance.
>>>Marcus.
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>>You'll need to check SETUP.STF to see how the files are installed; things installed with the InstallSysFile verb and shown as shared are both version and datetime stamp checked. If the .DLLs are put in place with the CopyFile verb, I don't believe they're checked. This is one reason why I use InstallShield for most of my installation process; MS has not provided us a great deal of information on the command language for the Setup Wizard installs as far as I can tell, and the little I've learned about hacking the STF file has convinced me that InstallShield is easier for me to use. I don't rely on Setup Wizard for anything other than the runtime installation.
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>So do you use the Setup Wizard first, and then have the wizard run your InstallShield install automatically? Thanks for the feedback.

No, I run the InstallShield installation process (I'm currently using InstallShield Professional v5.5), and as one of the steps in my InstallShield script, I launch the Setup Wizard install containing the runtime install silently using InstallShield's LaunchAppAndWait() verb. I don't use a post-setup executable in Setup Wizard, since it makes detecting termination that much harder, and I do a bit of prep work, cleaning up registry keys and old setup directories first. This lets me use InstallShield to control things both before and after the VFP runtime drops in place, and lets me do things like split installs (installs where I expect a reboot to take place in mid-stream). It also means that I can program an UnInstall for my applications, something not provided directly in Setup Wizard installs. It also gets me the benefit of having the VFP runtime put in place using the mechanisms prescribed by MS, so that I know that if the runtime screws up, it's not something I forot to mimic from the Setup Wizard install.

This does mean that I can't distribute on floppies, but for the applications I develop, this is not an issue.