>>I am creating a SETUP for VFP 6.0 to be used on XP OS. I don't have a PC with XP so I am sort of working in the "dark." I thought I could put all the DLLs required for VFP 6.0 app into a directory other than one in WINDOWS (SYSTEM or SYSTEM32). That is, my understanding of XP is that DLLs can be in "any" folder (unlike Win98 where some files have to be in SYSTEM folder).
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>>Am I correct or are there any files that must be placed in SYSTEM or SYSTEM32 folders?
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>>TIA.
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>Dmitry,
>Why don't you use good old < s > setup wizard. It'd prepare a setup with right target folders.
>PS: I think there is not such a distinction between win98 and XP.
>Cetin

I think VFP 6.0 was released before XP was. Therefore, I am not sure that VFP 6.0 setup wizard will know where to put this or that DLL. I think, my guess is, that it will try to put the .DLLs in SYSTEM folders. Which might work. But I am not sure, since I don't have XP. And if possible, when I send the setup to a customer who has XP, I want to minimize a potential problem for him. You see, I already tried using Wise setup for VFP 6.0 and it crashes on XP, because the version of Wise I have was released later than VFP 6.0 but before XP.

So what I am using now is InstallShield that comes with VFP 8 to create a setup for VFP 6.0. In InstallShield I have to specify where each DLL will go. And I want to be sure that if some DLL has to be in a SYSTEM directory, I direct it there.