>>I'm constant updating the software.
>>Is there any way I can overcome running from office to office asking the
>>people to close the
>>app so I can install the new exe file??
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>Per Simmersholm
>
>I've done this by having the app started from a batch file. So, when I
>installed a new version, it's filename was slightly different from the
>previous version. After installing and testing (the old version was
>still running on many machines), I've edited the batch file to put the
>new name into it. So the next user will start the new version, while the
>others still use the old one in parallel.
>
>Sometimes it happened that there were three versions running at once,
>and nobody noticed :). Tomorrow, of course, everybody used the newest
>one.

you could also check date/time/size of new exe vs. exe on user's machine. if newer, update.