Thanks very much, Stefan. It had been a while since I'd installed VFP on a new OS and I just got nervous that is would actually overwrite my Win7 Windows Installer among other things.

Don't remember it being evil when I installed on Vista, but that was a while ago and I thought I might have just missed something.



>>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
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>Yes,
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>> and has it replaced any files with what it thought was something "newer" ?
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>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?
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>(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.)
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>hth
>-Stefan