Hi Victor,

The event viewer is a good idea, but unfortunatly the errors in the event viewer are just as useless...

"Component identity found in manifest does not match the identity of the component requested."

No details at all about what was found or what was requested. There is a subsequent error about a syntax error in the CRT manifest file, which gives a vague clue, but is very misleading as to what the actual error is, because the Manifest file is perfectly fine. It's just not the one the program is looking for!

Dependency walker show this info though! Super! That's the answer to the second question in my original post. I'll keep this in mind for next time. Thanks, Victor.

Just in case anyone is looking, the answer to the first question in my original post seems to be that it's perfectly fine to stick with MFC8.0 while using the updated Windows SDK v7.0A.