>>I don't know what could be the problem because I can run any Foxpro .EXE or .APP from Explorer w/o first installing the individual apps. Somehow (I don't know how yet) the Exploer knows that my Foxpro .EXE file is a Foxpro program (I could see the cute little fox icon on the left :) ) and first start the Foxpro program before running the app. It doesn't use the runtime .EXE but the actual Foxpro development environment.
>
>
>John,
>I've got the fox icon too, but it doesn't RUN.

The icon problem is different, but much more solvable. To be brief, an .ICO file holds several kinds of icons, used by different applications. The two main versions of icons in an .ICO. file are 32x32 and 16x16. You usually have the 32x32 already available, so you need to add the 16x16 equivalent (used by Explorer and the Start Bar).

Open the .ICO in the icon editor, and select the 32x32 image. COPY the image to the Clipboard. Open the 16x16 image and paste. Save the whole thing. This should get the results you want - incidentally, this is how I created the icon I used in dupcheck.exe.

Note that .ICO files can be included in a project, and thus do not need to be distributed.