Hi Doyle.

>Once running I was using a Shell object to determine the presence of an internet connection. This function seems not to run unless the app is being Run as Administrator.

I tried your code while running VFP as a standard user without elevating and it worked for me AFTER I changed the path to the file. That's the cause of the problem: the root of the drive is a protected location, so you can't write to C:\LocalIP.txt without elevating. Instead, why not use SYS(2023) (the user's temporary files folder) i.e.

lcTempFile = addbs(sys(2023)) + 'LocalIP.txt'

Doug