Hi Peter,

>The exe is the only part that's compiled in vfp7, because it was the solution to some hard to tackle c05 errors.

Your C5s are not coming up, when you run the VFP7 exe with the VFP6 runtime?

>I can easily automate the update of application files (with Installshield), but I know of no method to automate the update of desktop-icons and items in the startmenu. As you probably know, it's possible to specify the runtime library with the startup parameter -d, and this is actually happening on the many install bases.

I haven't made any install sets with InstallShield, but from my experience with the WISE Installer I would think that trying to create a shortcut that already exists (same name and diectory) should result in an updated shortcut with the new command line.

Or do you think your users might have moved the shortcuts somewhere else? Then you could think about checking the runtime library that's used when the VFP7 exe is started. If it's the old one, tell the user that he/she has to update the shortcut with the new command line from the "official" start menu shortcut and quit the application. Ok, sounds like brute force <g>, but IMO this will be the only solution if you want to deal with that problem.

Regards some miles north-westwards <g>,
Armin