>>>1. Using an install of a single zipfile and make the application work on a number of windows versions.
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>>Are you talking about the app, or the server.
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>A monotologic app. You don't need to register anything, just put all in a single dir and it works.

If you stay 100% fox. The app I work with uses three ocx's from dbi tech, it uses HTML help, it uses Crystal Reports... so, there is a bit of registering going on. Of course, the setup.exe takes care of all this.

The above would be true whether we used SQL or DBF, we use SQL. So, our setup.exe does an MDAC install if needed.

BOb