>>>I'd forgotten that trick. But it doesn't help me get my debugger set to "Foxpro Frame". Any ideas?
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>>FYI, that option is stored in the registry under
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>>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\5.0\Options\DebugEnvironment
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>>a value of "1" is Foxpro frame, "0" is Debug frame.
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>>If you want, you could modify this registry key manually, but this doesn't address what I consider the problem, and that is why isn't this working automatically? Try setting this the way that you want it, click 'Set as Default' and close VFP. Check the registry and see if your setting was saved. At least then you will know if the problem is reading the registry, or writing to it.
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>The registry is correct ("1"). It's not being set in VFP for some reason. It's done it on 2 different terminals now. The current terminal had VFP5.0a installed from scratch. I'm lost. Any other ideas?

Yeah. Kill Foxuser.dbf and try starting VFP with the -A switch to start with no config file. Go to options, change your settings, and click Set As Default to create a new preferences set. Maybe this will give you a clean slate.