>>>Is there a way, or a program, that I can install on the net or on a CD that can be run at the other workstations that will only install the VFPx.DLL files, etc. and a desktop or program group shortcut icon?
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>>What I usually do is take a single empty PRG file and then create an install routine with the setup wizard. Be sure to check 'include VFP runtime' (or some such wording). I have seen other say that you don't even need to have a dummy PRG with with SP3. You can then distrubute the setup files to your users on a netork drive, via a floppy, etc..
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>Evan,
> Thanks. It seems to work. Is there any way to install a shortcut on the users pc to the existing exe on the network?
Only if you know where it is; the WSH Wscript.Shell object has a facility for creating shortcuts in it, so a post-setup executable that can find the network .EXE and build the local shortcut would address the problem nicely.