>Thanks Al, yes I have copied it in the folders you have suggested and no go. It works fine on a Vista machine and 90% of the other xp computers.
>Any other suggestions ???
Assuming Sergey's suggestion doesn't help:
Did you check file properties, that neither VFPCompression.fll nor the VC++ runtime file are being blocked by Windows?
Can you test by temporarily disabling real-time antivirus scanning on the problem machine(s)?
Regards. Al
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