>>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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>Thanks - Brenda

I wouldn't be so bold as to proclaim this a "good" way, but it does the job. George's thought on using the registry is a better approach, but 9 times out of ten, if MSINFO is installed, its in the default location. This code, in the form's init event, shortens the form to hide the "System Info" button if it's not found:

STORE "" TO THISFORM.cMSInfoWinDir
THISFORM.cMSInfoWinDir= "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\MSInfo32.exe"

IF !FILE(thisform.cmsinfowindir)
THISFORM.cMSInfoWinDir=""
ENDIF

IF EMPTY(THISFORM.cMSInfoWinDir)
THISFORM.cMSInfoWinDir = " "
THISFORM.cmdSysInfo.ENABLED = .F.
thisform.Height = 260
ENDIF

Hope it helps :)