>I have my Win7 box nicely configured for my development environment which is VS2008 and VS2010 b2
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>I do support VFP apps and need VFP on this box as well, but as I started the install I noticed it said it wanted to install some prerequisites ( presumably something from the Eisenhower administration ) because I did not have the proper version of something ( I was afraid to go to next at that point for fear that before starting to install them it wouldn't let me back out after seeing what it wanted to do )
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>Has anyone installed VFP on Win7

Yes,

> and has it replaced any files with what it thought was something "newer" ?

No, the Vfp IDE setup is a very good one. (It uses MS "Windows Installer", which I never saw overwriting any newer files.)
What the "Prerequisites" part of the Vfp setup does is merely to install the "Setup Runtime Files", i.e. the Vfp9*.DLL, foxhhelp* and Report*.APP files in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\VFP". So it's probably rather Clinton than Eisenhower?

(The MS XML 4.0 prerequisite does not get installed automatically on Vista/Win7, so that you'd either need to download MS XML 4.0 SP2 manually (which is OK since it is a fully supported independent component, and getting updated automatically by "Windows Update").
Or try to change all MSXML4 references to MSXML6 in the xSource components, TaskPane, Anchor properties dialog, Memberdata dialog, and so on.)


hth
-Stefan