If you find answers, let me know. You should not have to run VFP as Admin.

>No, I was using the default "all systems" setting which toggles back and forth.
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>New discovery just now however....
>It "suddenly" started working... and after some fiddling around I found why... sort of.
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>When running foxpro as an administrator, I CANNOT create the com object
>When running foxpro NOT as an administrator CAN create the com object...
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>If anything I would expect the opposite is true.
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>My test COM dll I created... works just fine either way. I'm off to do more googling now that I have a new clue.