after getting totally frustrated with the castrated version of install
shield that ships with vfp9, i created a setup using another product which
we already owned. everything works fine, except... when launching our
application, we get "cannot locate the microsoft visual foxpro ...

Good day everybody,
I am using VFP8.0 and I have developed an application which I distribute the
EXE and DLL to enduser. They don't have to run installation and can use the
application directly.

Topic: Adding a Windows Installer Search in the Launch Conditions Editor
in msdn2003:
ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003APR.1033/vsintro7/html/vxtskaddingcomponentsearch.htm
describes that:

I am trying to get a VFP application to run as an NT service.  i have a test
program as listed below: -
SET SAFETY OFF
ON ERROR *

I have installed FoxPro6 on my of our office computers and it ran fine.  The
computer is running WindowXP.  Unfortunately FoxPro suddenly stopped working.
We uninstalled the program and reinstalled it several times and it will not
run.  In fact it locks up the computer to the ...