>The UAC is making my life difficult. I can't start VFP without getting the "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer" message. I've tried some workarounds, but they are not working. Is there a way to get VFP - and obviously this applies to other programs, not just VFP - to start without the annoying message?

Yes UAC tends to be intrusive on win7. But IMHO only a tad more than on Vista. No different in nature or I am missing something simple? You should pay a look to MS UAC pages. And then make sure that your programs behave in an UAC compliant way.

The list of things to avoid is significant but not impossible to cope with:
- do no try to register activex on the fly (that happens sometimes within vfp dev),
- on a more general basis, do not write to the registry,
- do not build files in system-monitored directories. (temp and user directories are ok)

... And pray it works. As far as I am concerned this "silent UAC" is a critical item on the list. I use a virtualizer - molebox - to make sure the software can run without installation per simple copy. Of course an msi file just triggers UAC as well.

No UAC champ here. Just a bit of painful discovery in painful deployment conditions on locked-up corporate workstation.... I welcome additional information.