>My installation does not have a "program data" folder.
>It has "program files" and "program files (x86)
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>my application folder is in "program files (x86)" and the INI file is already in the folder of the application.
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>I have added the program directory manually and added the vfp6 support library files manually. That all seems to be working.

In Windows 7 you can not write in the files in the Program Files directory. This is what ProgramData directory is for. We recently changed all our applications to put application specific settings in the ProgramData\Application directory.