>Craig,
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>I always copy my Runtime files into the directory that the application is installed into for several reasons.

This was the way to do this under FP2.x, it is not the way to handle this now. Under FPW2.x, the runtime files were loaded with each Fox app, so if the user ran three apps at the same time, 3 copies of the runtime were loaded. Under VFP, this changed. Only one instance of the runtime is installed and is shared among all running VFP apps. This is one reason that the runtime files belong in the Windows folders...so they can be found. How do you get around the problem of not finding the runtime files.

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>1. I use REFOX and so they are encrypted anyway and won't run with other VFP apps on the same machine if they are in the SYSTEM folder.

ReFox doesn't do anything with the runtime files...only your code.

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>2. I have had installations that had two different apps from me on the same machine and were using different versions of the Runtime files because one had been written earlier and not been recompiled on the same machine.

I can see that problem.

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>3. Since my apps are downloadable from my web site, I want to make sure that other apps don't clobber my run times so I again place them in the directory of the application.
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>A few years ago I had lots of problems with other apps clobbering my run times and then making my apps unusable. I hope that helps with some of my reasons. I know they eat up disk space. But disk space is cheap now and it's safer.

I don't have problems with diskspace issues.