I guess I didn't explain the setup clearly. I have some fairly simple vbscripts that setup the PWS and MSDE and update the asp files and database. User just doubleclicks a shortcut and the scripts check everything. It's just 1 application, gets copied to laptop when they 'refresh' the database. At any rate, it's not on a CD...

>Hi Kimbereley
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>thanks for your reply.
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>I think the problem here is that the client wants to be able to distribute their internet catalogue also via CDROM without maintaining 2 applications. But they don't want to be supporting people trying to install PWS so it needs to be automatically configured and that may be a problem. I imagine that becuase you had control of the laptop configuration you could setup as you wanted and they where all pretty much the same.
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>What you describe sounds exactly like what I wanted to do except that in my case read Foxpro instead of MSDE.
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>Seems like there may be a niche for a product here to run Internet apps locally. ButI don't have the skill to create it (at the moment)
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>Nick Mason