>I would like to distribute my application programs (exe, dbc), in a CD-ROM.
>How can i protect my setup files, to prevent not authorized copies ?
>
>Note : My setup files are created with Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a Setup Wizard.

Hello Jose.
A couple of different ways:(externally and within your appication)
1 - there is a option in the project manager tab where you can encrypt files. This will encrypt the exe.
2 - you can write a method that hides the database and tables. When someone browses the data within foxpro, they can't see the data unless they run the method that encrypts the data.
3 - you can also indicate some of the files on the Cd-rom as read-only.

These may help, but security is never foolproof
Alp Berker