Hmm. I don''t think clicking through a succession of dialog boxes and filling in directories etc is as convenient as right-click-dragging the zip file to the desktop, and selecting ''extract to its own folder'' or whatever. And are you telling me you''ve never had the problem of "Uninstall could not remove certain items. Please remove these manually"? Even professional installers seem to have this problem, so I expect amateur ones would too. What about if you install a .DLL to windows/system that is newer/bigger than the one they currently have? What if it''s subtley bugged?

Now, I am of course not speaking on behalf of everyone, just me. But I prefer to install software that is self-contained and isn''t making modifications all over the place, especially if he software is going to be gone shortly. If I had to do this sort of thing 20 times a day, I''d be even less inclined to want things installing anything to windows/system, or to my start menu, or anywhere other than the directory I put it in. I do think a self-extracting zip file is a very good compromise.

I agree that one should choose the easiest and simplest option,
but my game has to write out a high score list, and it can''t do
that on a CD. Is there any other solution to this other than
a full installation on someone''s hard drive? I would think my
game would have to detect that it is running on a CD somehow
to figure out what to do.

JA