>The MS System Information program is not distributable. The user has to have MS Office (I think) or some other MS application that'll install it.
That's right -- we had a controversy here over that a while back. Basically, you really need a solution such as searching for the msinfo or msinfo32 app when you launch your Help/About form, and disabling the button if it can't be found...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.