[SoftTalker]

IIRC back in the day, Windows could not replace a file if the file was open by any process. So an application could not update itself, without doing something like launching a separate "updater" and then exiting.

Another thing people tried was putting the VB app on a network share so it wasn't installed on each machine, but I think all the ODBC and other config still had to be local on each client.

Powerbuilder apps were similar.

[mike_hearn]

Yes, back then it was definitely a huge problem and one of the big reasons for the web's success.