>Hi Doyle.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>lcTempFile = addbs(sys(2023)) + 'LocalIP.txt'
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>Doug

Doug,

Sincere thanks for your solution! It's too elegant. I would like to express gratitude for sharing your expert insight. You and countless others here at UT contribute greatly to those of us so in need of assistance. THANK YOU!

dg