Hi Arne,

When you say the VFP500.DLL is distributed, do you mean it's copied to the user machine. If so, this won't work. The runtime files need to be installed on a user machine as part of a setup.exe.

>Hi,
>
>this one's driving me crazy. Here's the setup:
>
>executable created in VFP 5.0 and distributed with databases and
>VFP500.DLL, VFP5ENU etc. etc. The installation works perfectly on
>*many* machines including three laptops. However, on three different
>laptops running the exe gives: " The VFP500.DLL file is damaged or
>invalid" before the app actually starts. Same thing happens with a
>test app (much smaller). Note that the exact same distribution build
>works fine when installed on other machines. The error is somehow
>machine specific and is a misnomer because even a CRC on the runtime
>files verifies ok and is identical on the machine that works and the
>one that doesn't. Can anybody shed any light on this?? Please?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-Arne