Thanks, I checked the dependencies, but somehow, I missed (or just didn't brain-register) comcat.dll. I'm going to check that one out first chance. Unfortunately, the guy with the problem is travelling this week and has his laptop with him. It can wait.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Alan

>Hi,
>
>>>Anyway, thanks for your thoughts on this one. <<
>
>I see no one else has chipped in so one further suggestion:
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>MSCOMCT2 has a dependency on COMCAT.DLL - is that installed OK ? You could also check OLE32.DLL and OLEAUT32.DLL. All the other dependencies are standard windows stuff
>
>Regards,
>Viv