>I'm making extensive use of WSH for drive mappings and desktop shortcuts in my application framework. After releasing an app, I find out WSH is not installed on 95 and NT. Any suggestions on how I can detect if it is installed and if not, possibly install it during setup or something?
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Check if the automation object(s) you rely on exist in the registry - for example, if you need the services of Wscript.Shell, there has to be an entry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wscript.Shell in order for it to exist. If it doesn't exist, the WSH is not present, and you need to isntall it. If it is present, you need to check the version to ensure that the services needed from the automation object are available; either instantiate the object and then try to access the services, or track back through the CLSID to get the name of the file acting as the server, and check the file version using VFP's AGETFILEVERSION() or the FoxTools function equivalent to it prior to VFP6 to ensure that the correct version is present; if not, it needs to be installed.

>Thanx,
>Charlie