>>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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>How is a good way to search for msinfo?
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Hi Brenda,

The registry (under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSInfo.Document). The ..\Shell\Open\Command" has the location of the executable (short path used). Or create the object and try to trap the OLE error if not found. Or create a temporary file with the extension "nfo" and use the FindExecutable API call to locate it.