>I'm trying to distribute an exe across the internet, but everyone keeps getting the same error when trying to start the exe.
>
>"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)"
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>I have vfp7r.dll and vfp7renu.dll in the same directory with the exe file.
>The first person to try it got an error needing msvcr70.dll, so I distributed that file also.
>
>Both people who tried it are using Windows XP and I wrote in using Windows 98, but it doesn't work even changing the compatibility to Win 98.
>
>Both people used AOL to download it.
>
>TIA

Best way to distribute an app is to use Installshield express to build a setup app using the provided merge modules.

But if you want to distribute the files manually, IIRC, you'll need to register the runtime with

regsvr32 "(appPath)\vfp7r.dll"