Then it sounds as though your needs are not my own. If they were life would be beautiful. :-)

Seriously, if you do not have the following requirements:

Create and install multiple VFP applications

Use third-party add-ons for your applications

Support users in remote locations (i.e. not in your office/building/campus

If you don't need to support any of the above, then you don't need something as powerful as Ghost. If you need to support any of the above then Ghost (or some other product like Disk Imager (sp??)) is really needed.

Look at in these terms, if you make $20/hour to do what you do and it saves you a minimum of 5 hours supporting/troubleshooting your users installation problems that you could be doing other productive work, then it pays for itself.

Okay, now that I've beat this into the ground, I'll stop now. Take care.

>It seems like a lot of money just to get an install program working. I'd basically be using it one day and never again (until a new version of VFP, I guess).
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle
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>>Why not? If you do any installation routines at all, then it is justified in my opinion. I saw it at CompUSA for $99 so the cost isn't extravagant. The number of trouble calls it alleviates from users without the necessary support files makes it well worth the price, IMO.
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>>Just my $0.02.
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>>P.S. And no I do not own stock in Symantec so my motives are pure. :-)

Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.net

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