>Not quite clear, do you allow user to update FOXUSER table from your code ?FOXUSER is the name of the foxpro resource file by default.

Well, yes, I realize that, but this is just VFP doing its thing and writing whatever it wants to write to the FOXUSER table. Actually, I could probably SET RESOURCE OFF, however I just never did this and there's no great advantage or disadvantage to it (until now <g>).