Hi Tracy,

>However, it ONLY works if I run the .exe (our vfp app) from within VFP developer.

You mean you are entering

DO whatever.EXE

in the VFP command window and that's the only way to get it working? In this case, VFP9.EXE would be the application that determines how certain things are resolved in Windows. Is there any file in the VFP directory that wasn't installed by VFP itself?