>>>>>>IMO, the Fox team has more important things to do than add something that you can do with Win2K and Active Directory.
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>>>>>No question about that, but don't you think it's about time that they updated a 16 bit setup program?
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>>>>Why? Everything is currently moving to 32 bits.
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>>>Huh? Um, Craig, the Setup.exe that VFP 6.0 uses is 16 bits, not 32. See?
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>>THat's my point. Why should we continue using a 16 bit application?
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>I wasn't saying we should. I was arguing for a new version. Last night, however, one thing hit me. I realized why the current setup wizard doesn't allow you to add a short cut to the start menu or desktop. I doesn't have anyway to know their locations. Neither does it know about the IShell Class Factory (I think that's it< g >). It creates the group and the shortcut via DDE with (of all things) the good old Program Manager.:-)

George,

Dumb question here....

Why not just ditch the Microsoft product for, say, InstallShield or some other product? Maybe I'm missing something here but it strikes me that these other products can/will do what you need.


Could this be a result of Microsoft not seeing itself in the installer program business?

I do agree that something should be done here but I just wonder if there's not already an answer.

Best,

DD