Hi Albert,

> If I navigate to the help file and open it with IE8, it opens properly (on my Win7 machine).
ok ! yes it's not a problem with the Help file...

>But I cannot get "Help" (of any sort) to fire up on that machine (a new install). When I click "Help" from the VFP menu, nothing happens. I tried reinstalling VFP from scratch and that did not help even with the old original help file.

SET HELP ON
;)
? SYS("HELP",1)

SET HELP TO ...

>I found out that my CD from years ago is damaged so I re-created one from the CD plus from files on my current PC. I am going to start a new thread asking if anyone knows how to get a new CD.

If you have msdn subscription you can download VFP

regards
Francis