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George, << … impossible to test for all the ways a system could be setup … >> This may not be that difficult with windows because so much of the setup in included in the win.ini and system.ini files in very well defined formats. Additionally, windows will tell you the name and location of the main and system directory no matter what the name or location. For example, you can find out which shell is used with a simple GetPrivateProfileString call to system.ini. If it's not progman, you can still easily see if progman is still in the windows directory with the OpenFile call. If it's not the shell and not on disk, then bypass any code in your install that would setup a program group. Pretty simple and straight forward. Perhaps some humble soul could put together a generic system configuration generator that could be used with install programs. It would be a fantastic way of really getting comfortable with the api calls. –dennis There is 1 Reply.