>I have two questions, that I need help with.
Fro two questions that are not related, the usual recommendation is to post them in two separate messages.
>2. Is there a way to automately create a shortcut on the desktop when installing a VFP program.
I managed to create shortcuts with George Tasker's Download #
9419, but I didn't try to intregrate it into a setup program. Pressumably, this would require running a "post-setup executable".
The download is extremely valuable for your purposes; it also contains functions to obtain special folders. For instance, the Windows folder is not always c:\windows.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)