>One interesting new concept in Win2K is "parallel DLLs." Instead of trying to make everything backward compatible, they are going to give up on that, and rely on numerous different versions which will be exact fits for the apps they're supposed to serve. Also, they will try to keep them out of the main System directory, which has become a quagmire of files, when possible. All makes real good sense to me...

I've been preaching this (to no one in particular) for some time. Everything that an application needs that is not absolutely standard for the OS should be in the application directory. Including an application registry file. You should be able to delete that directory (and sub-directories) and automatically remove all traces of the app from the computer.

Peter Robinson