>>Call me crazy but I think that any instance of a COM server created by CREATEOBJECT should be totally separate from another. > >It is. SET DEFAULT is an exception I guess because it sets the system path. > >I dunno - Microsoft saz it's so <s>... > I think you'll find that the VFP DLL starts up a small amount of shared memory that's available to all instances of the DLL. Simon ========================================================== Objective Software                      http://www.dev-com.com/~objective (44)(0)1299-823321 Tel                Mobile: 44-(0)976-361760 (44)(0)1299-879047 Fax 16 New Street Stourport on Severn Worcestershire England DY13 8UW Simon P. Lucy Support queries http://www.dev-com.com/~objective/support.html