>FWIW, we distribute them in the installation directory. Unless you put them there or in the [SystemFolder] then you aren't assured that your applicaton can find it using a search path. And it appears from your message that not all users will have admin rights when they install your app so that leaves one logical place, IMO.

I see your point. In fact, the end users for this will be in Banks, and they are not the most trusting entities on what goes in their users PCs {g}. So I'm stuck with install dir, even though I don't particularly like to see DLLs there (my quirk as I said {g})

Thx.