Les,
I've never had the problem you did with VFP5 or VFP6. In VFP3 if there was any problem at all I just put the ESL file (and the other 2-3 required files) into the same folder as the EXE. The libraries were then not available to any other VFP3 app, but that may not be a problem for your installation.

This dates back to Windows for Workgroups days.

Barbara

>Thanks for the reply, which prompts another question:
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>Supposing (for one reason or another) that they have installed Windows into C:\WIN95\SYSTEM. Given that we have no control over where the setup wizard puts the ESL file, is there anything that I can do about this situation? Is there perhaps a registry or .ini setting that can be tweaked? I don't want to have to start packaging differently depending on each client's desktop environment, as the application is supposed to be basically 'shrink wrapped'.
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>TIA
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>Les