Fred,

Tried it, no success. Anything else come to mind?

BTW, I do have another VFP9 Exe running in the same dir, same everything, without a hitch.

I think I'll try rebuilding the project from scratch.

BR


>>I have just ported an app. that originally was created in Vfp 7 to Vfp 9.
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>>The exe works fine, but when it's moved to the server where it's supposed to run, it starts some sort of installation process with windows installer.
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>>I have absolutely no idea what's going on, so help is appreciated.
>>
>>TIA & BR
>
>Check your registry entry for:
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>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
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>and see if you have an entry for SETUP.EXE there.
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>I've found that removing this key will eliminate this error. If your not comfortable with that, the Default key value under SETUP.EXE can be removed, as that's the one causing the grief.