Check Tools -> Options -> File Locations -> Resource File (click Modify button). The 'Use resource file' should be checked and 'Location of resource file' should point to the valid foxuser.dbf

>If I start VFP9 from the default VFP9 folder, my resource setting is "off".
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>It didn't used to be this way and so I know something has changed.
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>FYI - I do not have a CONFIG.FPW file that could be interfering with the default setting and I do not have a startvfp.prg file set in the "startup" prg under the options.
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>The only way I have been able to have it default to "on" is to add a config.fpw file with "RESOURCE=ON" in it. But since the default setting is ON, I shouldn't have to do this.
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>Any ideas on what to check?