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After I made this post yesterday, Douglas pointed to this MSDN article on something MS is calling "ClickOnce" - a framework for a unified install/update cycle. The article describes a more complete version of what I do now for BottomFeeder; it's also very similar to the ideas being worked on by our engineering group for this problem. It's good to see MS tackling the issue - I hope that Symantec adopts their scheme so that I don't have to reboot so often after their updates. That last thing is the main problem I have with most application updates out there now - I can do updating for Bf that takes place immediately - why do so many applications force an OS level reboot? Hopefully, this MS work will get rid of a lot of that...