>>>Yes, still using the vfp setup - I've used a post-setup exe to install the shortcuts in code using both WSH and George Tasker's lnkfiles.dll. They both work fine for most uses, really quite simple. I finally hit a wall, however, on an app that I'd like to pick up an unknown server path during setup. Will have to use something like IS Express for that, apparently...
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>>Hi Bruce,
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>>What do you mean by "...an unknown server path..."? That the actual path on the server is unknown or that the drive is unknown?
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>Hi George - what I mean is: I have a base directory with App & Netsetup subdirs. Each Server Admin copies this to their own server. Then the users at each server run the setup to install my app, which must point to the server for possible updates. This gets passed around the agency servers (and probably even outside the agency by now). I wanted to install a desktop icon automatically in the vfp setup, but since I don't know the server in advance, I haven't been able to get it to work.
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>Right now, each Server Admin edits the lnk file on the server for the correct UNC path, and then the users manually move it to the desktop with setup instructions. It works, but I'd really like to automate it...

So what you're saying is that the servers have no standardized directory structure and that the app could end up anywhere on the server. Therefore, even by checking the mapped network drives you couldn't reliably retrieve the location of the app without searching the entire drive. If this is correct, I can see the problem and how it'd be difficult to use a post-setup executable to do this work.

Fortunately, we've a standardized directory structure, so I do have a problem like this.