>>If I were to write the path to the registry will >>this slow down the load time to start the exe, >>or is it so minimal that it will not matter? >> >Writing to registry, instead of config.fpw you're beating soft coding. You only need to write to the registry once (unless a path changes). Then you just read the registry each time the program starts, just as you would read the path from a dbf. The advantage of the registry is that you won't have to have assume a path to the dbf that holds the path info. The registry is always there and accessable. Then just take what the registry says and put it into SET PATH TO ®istry-variable It is still soft coding the path. But reading the registry is slower then reading a dbf. How much slower? Probably not too noticable unless the registry has grown tremendously over time.