I hope that I did not misunderestand you. I thought that your boss wanted to have the user put the CD in the drive and then have the install run with out any messages nor any action by the user.
If all the workstations have the lastest WIN98 or greater, I beleive that you can run the .msi from...
In none of the options that have been suggested are acceptable, you can install the .msi directly instead of using the setup.exe
From the command window: "Install /q myapp.msi"
The /q indicates quiet. There are instructions regarding the installer and ORCA on Microsoft's web site...
Did you ever resolve the 'Vfp7r.dll is damaged or invalid' problem. It looks like running VFP7 .exe's on win95(A,B,C) is a mixed bag. I am having similar problems. Could that be your issue.
I strongly feel that you have a network problem, not a foxpro problem. The performance should nor vary that much. I have executed many applications volume-wise similar to that which you describe (VFP and FPW) and have seen small through put differences between network and local files.
The file name creation using SYS(2015) certainly will work. However you may want to consider the following. I have to support win95 and win2000. Depending on how win2000 permissions are set, the default path can be tricky. I use the following code to point me to the correct path for either...
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