>>>>I noticed today that whenever I am opening VFP 9 I see a message briefly (while VFP 9 is loading): "downloading from about:blank". What is it all about? Is it some kind of MSFT spyware inside VFP?
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>>>it is default page for IE. just blank page ;)
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>>No. The default page in my IE is Yahoo.com.
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>I mean that it is the page that you can set in IE preferences. dunno what is the reason for looking at blank page but I'd not bother too much about it.
I would suspect it's coming from the Task Pane application that is written in VFP. There was some trick to load blank page, it was discussed here few times.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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