AFAIK, DCOM come with Windows 95B, 98, IE 4 and 5. It didn't come with the original release of Windows 95. You can find it on MS site at http://www.microsoft.com/com/resources/downloads.asp

For the second problem, did you used any ActiveX controls?

HTH

>thanks for getting back to me. i dont think the first machine has dcom installed, when would that have been installed other than with windows95?
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>other mscvrt problem, the program was created using the project setup wizard