Russell,
Good to hear from you. I'm afraid my problems with Vista come from my history of doing things my way rather than the Microsoft way. At heart, I am still a FoxProDos programmer. We have been putting our programs in our own directory, but I thought with the advent of Vista we would put them in the Program Files directory with a main WRCS directory and individual directories for each program and its data. Question: VFP is a Microsoft product. Why can't it consistently recognize the DAMN space in 'Program Files'? I spent several days working that out. When put on a Vista machine the program wouldn't run because I was opening and then deleting a file on startup. Then I discovered [ why I didn't know this I don't know ] that the data was supposed to be in another directory on the machine. I just do not want to do that! Something in me rebels against it. The program and the data belong together!

Yesterday, we were testing our update procedure from a VISTA machine to a now Vista server. The first thing I do is check that the EXE actually exists on the server. Vista decided it was not going to let me confirm the existence of a file on another machine. Why??????

My conclusion from all this is that a few, or maybe many, bad apple programmers are causing undue pain and suffering to the rest of us that just want to make an honest living. I refer, of course, to those who write viruses and worms and whatever else has caused M$ to screw up their operating system. We should unite to find these people and then publicly execute then in a slow and painful way. That should put and end to the problem.

Linux is now starting to look very appealing to me. Have you ever heard of a language called RealBasic. It compiles to Windows,Mac, and Linux and it actually works. I'm doing a lot of reading on it now...

Calvin