>>My new machine will not accept IDE drives. However, Bob has a great suggestion to use an external box to go from IDE to USB. It seems like I am getting my Vista vs XP Professional problems and issues resolved one by one.
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>I just ran vfp in vista and opened the menu help option, then 'about VFP'. Then I clicked the system info button and got this: "Microsoft system info cannot be found or run"
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Interesting. I think you may have found a bug in VFP, which has to be reported.