Hi Calvin,

We have two customers who receive a 0x80040154 error in our application (two out of several thousands). The error happens when we run these VFP command :

loWord = CREATEOBJECT("word.application")
or
loExcel = CREATEOBJECT("excel.application")
or
loOutlook = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.application")

if I try to run this VBS script, everything works fine:

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set appWord = Wscript.CreateObject("Word.Application")
appWord.Visible = TRUE
WSHShell.popup "Now Word is open..."
appWord.Quit
Set appWord = Nothing

The problem happens on a couple of XP machines at one customer's and on a W2003 server (terminal server) at another site (different customer). I've checked many registry settings, tried to repair MS-Office (reinstall), but no success. I can't even use CREATEOBJECT on our own VFP DLLs!

As these COM servers are correctly registered (I double checked), are you aware of a case where VFP (and VFP only) CREATEOBJECT function would fail?