>>>Here's something a little interesting:
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>>>1) I install a vfp app on a new NT machine, and all the runtimes are placed in the Winnt\system dir, and it runs "out of the box" (with a few minor GUI problems)
>>>2) I install a PB6 app on same, and it puts PB runtimes in Windows\system dir. PB app will not run until I create an autoexec.bat with a path for the runtimes. It looks like it has to have separate apps built, maybe, for each OS, I'm not sure. Are MS apps "smarter" than PB apps?
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>>Hi Bruce,
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>>Are you saying that the runtimes aren't being placed in the NT system directory?
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>Yes. vfp does it just fine, but PB6 doesn't, and it won't run without either setting the path to Windows\System in autoexec (which we shouldn't need under NT), or moving them manually and editing the registry to change the path. Not very state-of-the-art, eh?

Bruce,

have you tried setting the environment variable in NT through the system properties->Environment variables (by right-clicking on "My Computer") instead of Autoexec. I agree, that if on every install, you have to do this, it's a major PITA, but in the docs, you can pass it off as "if you receive the error message (insert message here), verify that the installation program properly set up the environment variable... yada yada yada"... Pass the blame off to the installation program ;)

Just a suggestion, hope it might help

Hugo