That project uses only MFC42.DLL. You can know what DLL your project uses with Depends utility. Depending on your application for generating installers, you will need a merge module that incorporates MFC42 with the installation, for example, InstallShield uses MFC42.MSM Jaime

Glad the workaround worked for you. I'm sorry I don't know the proper way to do this...I haven't done any shell programming at all. I did find this article on the codeguru; not that I recommend or endorse the codeguru in any way - seeing that I'm a loyal codeproject user: http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/COM-Tech/shell/article.php/c1315/

What results do you get with CreateProcess()? "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen