>>>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.
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>>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...
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>Yep, or hiding it altogether.
Right, even better. We finally gave up altogether on adding it to apps, since mostly just power users might like it, and they can get the system info other ways...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.