Thanks Erik that helps with the reboot persistence, but what about user I/O? I was thinking about a form with pageframe and pages in the upper left corner. Do you have any other ideas?

Cheers,
Mark ;-)

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>>I am trying to come up with an elegant way for the users to run my program while having their hand held. I have been thinking about creating a wizard-like series of dialogs with on-line help. When the usercomes to a point requiring re-boot they will witness the re-boot and will be automatically taken to the next step in the wizard.
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>Are you talking about installing your app, or running it?
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>Either way, the way that you make your app seem to live through a reboot, is by allowing for certain input parameters to your program's startup that tells your program where the user last left off. So when you are ready to reboot, write out to your signal file, table, registry, or whatever and put the fullpath to your program in an entry in
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>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce
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>Entries in this registry folder get run once- the next time windows is started, and then they are removed. That's how install programs persist through a reboot.
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>If you need a tool to write to the registry, you can use the one that comes with VFP in the FFC, or one of several free ones you can download here from the files section.
>If you want this functionality already built for you, you should look at an aftermarket install builder like InstallShield. They let you write scripts that manage your install process, and most of the details have already been thought of.