In one of the steps in the Setup Wizard you can choose from several components to install. The first one is the Visual FoxPro Runtime Libraries. Make sure this is checked when you run the Setup Wizard.

>Thanks... I was sorta thinking that this was what was missing. I used the setup wizard to create the distro disks ( I believe it is called that). Why wasnt that file added by the wizard? or should it have been in my Program Manager?
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>Dan
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>>Dan ---
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>>It can't find VFP500.dll...thats what the problem is.
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>>>While trying to create a sample application and then create distro disks, I have run accross the following problem. Can anyone advise which lib it means and how did it not get added??
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>>>When installing my test program on a PC compatable Pentium computer, I get an error thats says something to the effect of " Cannot find Microsoft Visual Foxpro Support Library" WHEN i try to run the EXE prg.
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>>>Many TIA,
>>>Dan