>Hi Stephen ---
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>>Call the DLL police! You are violating the M$ DLL protocall!
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>ROFL....
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>>Actually that is a bad idea because whenever an update is available it's very difficult to track down all the locations of potential dll's. So some of your apps will accept the inhancements and others won't.
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>True, there is a downside which is why I labeled it a cheezy solution. But the upside is that it shortens the amount of time the app spends looking for it's support files and on a slow network drive that could really speed things up. When EXEs are looking for DLLs, the first place they look is in the same directory.

You should have the DLL's in your system directory. That's the only place in my book. Makes secondary maintenance much easier.