Rick Hansen:
Or, place the executable and it's dependencies in an application specific directory giving rise to same/different versions of the same library scattered all over the system; "DLL hell."
No, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dll_hell And to note: this was a problem in earlier Windows versions (Win9x-), but isn't anymore. I've been using WinXP heavily for a couple of years now, but never experienced any serious DLL problems. In my experience, there are fewer library-related problems in WinXP than in any other OS I've ever used (AmigaOS, Linux, BeOS). Christian