>>My daughter was forced to reload Win 98 SE on her laptop and when she attempts to reload VFP 7.0 she gets the message:
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>>"can't populate the selection tree".
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>Ken,
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>Which step generates this error? Where prerequisites installed properly?

I don't know what you mean by prerequisities. You inserts the disk, VFP responded a window componet needed to changed and that completes. Then she clicks on install VPP...she gets the error almost immediately. It offers OK, but nothing is left to do and it's not installed.