>Thanks for your responses.
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>I went ahead and turned OFF the UAC but problem persists.
>still no file names are being displayed when you issue the command:
>RUN DIR/p
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>For those who say "DOS is dead!", these are not DOS machines. These are customers who go out and buy a brand new Vista computer in order to run their Legacy application that they still prefer. Even though the VFP version is available.
>
>They still like the simplicity, familiarity, the large fonts and the modal nature of the old FoxPro2 screens. We have to keep them happy too.
>
>

You might look at shellexecute for running those dos commands. There's a couple of downloads here.