Yep! We have those also. That's why I will try to run everything from the network for that app. (No fancy ActiveX to register.)


>I think I am going to borrow this idea. A large portion of the PCs at the hospital can't have exe's copied to the hard drive for security reasons (groan).
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>>It was a life-changing experience when someone clued me into this.
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>>I can't believe that at my previous job we had to get about 15 people out of the app before we could copy in a new version. They were in another building and someone had to go around and check idle computers that might have the app running. Always put people out of the app for about 30 minutes for a 2-second job.
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>>>Hey great a 3rd way!
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>>>>I have a "launcher" app on the server which seldom changes. It opens a free 2.6 table with the name of the current version. A power user can edit this file in Excel in an emergency to go back one version. Then the launcher app calls the current version. I keep a couple of old versions on the server, deleting the oldest one when I create a new one.