Hi Ken,

I wasn't aware of this. Anytime I tried just copying I got the Invalid message. Maybe those machines were missing other files as Ed suggested.

I've ended up creating a very simple setup.exe which contains nothing but the runtime files. Since I work for the company that uses my software I've made this setup.exe a part of new machine setup.

>Coling,
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>Actually - it works just fine to copy the files to target machine - I do it all the time - have for years - hundreds of users. As long as you get the right stuff in the right place and register that which needs it (usually only ocx) it works perfectly.
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>I'm not saying it's always the BEST way to do it, but for sites that I have some control over, copying through Windows explorer is a lot quicker than running setups.
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>Ken
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>>Hi Arne,
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>>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.