Because it was my "fault", I believe...

When I got the new machine I used a MS utility to 'transfer setting, etc.' from the old system.
As usual with MS stuff, they tell you little/nothing about what it will do, yet offers a dialog where you can de-select things (of course the impact of doing such is not told).

I suspect VERY STRONGLY that this was the source of my problems, because even though I had deleted all visible MONTAGE-related directories the install always said that there was an existing install and so couldn't proceed.

cheers

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>>Mike Asherman mentioned MONTAGE, which I use on my other machine for this kind of stuff (wouldn't install here for reasons unknown).
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>Hi Jim,
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>I was not aware of any installation problems. Which version of Windows and Montage did you try? Note that there really is no need for any setup at all in most cases, if you simply put the VFP runtime DLLs into the Montage program directory. Aside from support of VFP's context-sensitive Help, I don't think anything requires installation into the Windows system directory or any registry changes.
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>Mike