>Jane, my experience has been that it's easier to install/maintain if you store your installation files on the server and install the exe's to the workstations. Your application should have a method for knowing where the data resides also. I use a dbf that has the path to the data.

PMFJI, but I believe another option has been overlooked. I *usually* install all files (runtime + application) on the server instead of performing a workstation installation.

Of course this option does not work for application that use .OCX components.

The reasoning is a follows:

- It is MUCH easier to install an updated application into one common directory instead of 1,3,10,100 individual workstations.

- It is MUCH easier to install an updated runtime into one common directory instead of 1,3,10,100 individual workstations.

- You can leave an older application developed with VFP5 in its own directory and develop new apps in VFP6 in a different directory without need to upgrade older apps until needed.

The only downside to this method is that the runtime is loaded over a slow network connection instead of a faster local drive. But in the days of 100Mbps networks the speed difference is negligible.

Mike