I'm glad you figured it out.

>Thanks for the quick response.
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>I think I just figured it out, being a new instalation the taskpane was set to run as a startup application. This was what was causing it to fail.
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>John
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>The VFPFilter.prg is very simple just for testing and doesn't actually do much yet.
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>SET SAFETY OFF
>=STRTOFILE('Test','C:\Scripts\VFPTest.log')
>SET SAFETY ON
>RETURN
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>Just these 2 lines of code in a script file will create the error.
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>Dim oFox
>Set oFox = CreateObject("VisualFoxPro.Application")
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>I just tried this under Windows XP Pro and on a Windows 2000 client, and it seems to work fine, so the problem seems to relate only to my Windows Server 2000 (SBS) instalation. This is a new instalation of VFP which I upgraded to SP1.
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