>Guess what George, I saw Win2k and the new installer at Devdays today and that's the way they say things will be in the future. That way you don't have to worry about another product overwriting your installation. Additionally, the dllcache folder will contain a copy of every dll that gets installed so if a user deletes one, it will automatically copy it back.

Hiya John,

About all I can say is that it is a solution and thank goodness large hard drives are relatively cheap these days. I don't necessarily think it's the best solution however. My take is that the underlying problem is caused by either modifying the public interface without taking the old interface into account, or modifying the underlying functionality of existing functions. Both are bad practices, whether working with a DLL function or a VFP class.

Thanks for the heads up.