You should be able to install VFP9 by bypassing the Prereq portion of the setup. See wcu\moreinfo.htm on the CD for details.

It explains how to run setup.exe in the Setup folder with a startup switch.

>Sergey,
>
>On one of our office machines we can not pass Prerequestives installing VFP9. It's keep going there after we installed it. What should we do?
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>>Jim,
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>>You can run VFP8.exe once with /regserver command-line switch to change association to VFP8.
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>>>After the install, VFP9 has taken control of all my shortcuts :-( Is there any option to have it NOT become the default application for VFP file types?