>>>Jim,
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>>>Would this have anything to do with my upgrade on the development machine to VFP5.0a. Do I need to create another netsetup for the users to reinstall on their local machines? Would this change the older .dll's with VFP5.0a files or are is the runtime stuff the same with VFP5.0 and 5.0a.
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>>>Thanks John.
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>>John,
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>>NEVER trust that the runtimes are the same between versions. I would update the production machines. I don't know of anything in the latest version that would make that drastic of a change in performacne, but you never konw til you try.
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>The run-time set-up must be recreated. Worse than that, you need to clear out one of the setup wizard sub-directories as specified in SP3 notes (I'm not sure which - it'll be the one containing the compressed version of vfp500.dll I think). Otherwise the newer vfp500.dll won't get built into your net setup, even though you are running 5.0a on your development machine!
>HTH

Hi David,

Thanks for the tip...I'm about spent on this problem. I sure hope this helps because I just don't know what else to do if it doesn't. This is the wierdest thing I have come across since working with foxpro. I'm going to take a few hours away from this mind numbing stuff and do what you suggest with the set-up tonight. Do you know if the difficulties that I'm having with joined queries are directly related to the newer runtime...just curious. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge, and cross your fingers for me.

John.