Thank you for these links and your hope. However I did find something in the supplied link that does indicated a problem and possibly the death of FPW26 for some of my clients.


Below please find the blog response that supports the fact that fpw26 will not function under 64 bit Vista.

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Re: Vista and FPW26 by Cy
Cy
Fri Feb 02 14:04:45 CST 2007

Stephen Ibbs wrote:
>>> I have read alsmost everywhere that 16-bit applications simply won't work
>>> on Vista. We are a software house mostly in vfp7/9 but with one product
>>> still in fpw26 and still used by 1000s of customers. We obviously needed
>>> to know what Vista was going to do to this client base.
>>>
>>> We have just purchased a Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Premium (32bit)
>>> pre-installed, ran the installation CD (Installshield 2.04) and it
>>> installed with no problems. We held our breath and ran the main
>>> application exe. It worked perfectly. It also calls a couple of tiny
>>> little Delphi v1 exes in a various places and these ran without error as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> PHEW
>>>
>>> We are working hard re-writing this final app in our portfolio from
>>> scratch in vfp9.1 but it is a relief that it does still work.

> We haven't tried moving SPR files into vfp9. We have always taken the
> opportunity to completely rewrite into OOP, correct all our poor variable
> naming, and basically improve the code years after the original was written.
>
> It does however give us a breathing spcae. We faced the prospect of a lot of
> customers abandoning us because the software wouldn't work on their brand
> new OS. Our fault of course, we should have moved to upgrade earlier, but
> our software is dependent on government legislation, and if this changes we
> have to upgrade the existing fpw26 app quickly and so developing the new
> vfp9 version always took second place!
> [Reordered]

What you probably have been hearing about (and missed in your test) is 
the Vista x64 (and WinXP64) will not run 16 bit programs. So your test 
might have given you false hope, as the 64 bit version of Vista will NOT 
run FPW at all.

--
Cy Welch
Senior Programmer
MetSYS Inc
http://www.metsysinc.com
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>http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2006/01/13/FoxPro25DOSOnVistaAndFPW26Too.aspx
>http://www.themssforum.com/ExchangeFox/Vista-230091/
>
>Apparently it does work.
>
>>Will the FPW26 development environment function in the Windows Vista *64 bit* operating system? If not what modifications must I make to FPW26 and/or Windows?
>>
>>Neil
>>I need to buy a new computer and I am hoping that the old fpw26 can be installed without worry..