Exactly the problem. I had cleverly deleted everything in Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP and kablooie, no help. I'm surprised the missing help was the only noticeable effect.

Thanks.

BTW, I lived in Atlanta 20 years ago and Alpharetta was sort of in the woods back then. It's probably considered midtown these days if what I hear about the growth of metro Atlanta is true.

Gary

>Gary,
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>>Anyone had this problem before? Or better yet, fixed it!
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>Yep. Try doing a /REGSERVER on FOXHHELP8.EXE and FOXHHELP9.EXE located in "Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP"
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>ie: from the (DOS) command window:
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>"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\foxhhelp8.exe" \regserver
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>"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\foxhhelp9.exe" \regserver
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>I hope that does it for you,