>>I'm having a problem installing my installation of VFP on my new Win 7.0 computer. What's happening comes when I enter the product key. The text box is inserting a number of spaces between the first five characters entered and subsequent parts of the key.
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>>Could it be, as a colleague suggests, that the product key has gone out of date, or is this a known issue with a resolution?
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>Long time no see!
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>I haven't had any problem entering a product key or otherwise installing VFP9 on Win7.
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>If you've got a new computer, maybe the keyboard is bad. Can you try a different one?
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>Some keyboards have extra, non-standard keys and require special driver support. If that's your case you might check that the driver is exactly correct for the keyboard, and check for updates.
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>If it's a laptop, some come with so-called "embedded numeric pads". When NumLock is on with those laptops, a lot of the keys on the right side of the keyboard are remapped to numbers. Don't know if it applies to you.
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>You could find out pretty quickly if it's any sort of keyboard problem. Just fire up Notepad, and type the letters A - Z and the numbers 0 - 9, see what you get.

Basically, the notepad solution is what I tried first. I tried pasting it in, and only got the first five characters. Then I tried keying it in using the keyboard and keypad. After I got through the first alphal/numeric sequence, the cursor moved right an indeterminet number of spaces and wouldn't let me enter the hyphen. I try using just the just using the keyboard as you suggested, but I'm not terribly confident if this is a solution. I've been wondering, however, if passing the product key as a parameter to the setup might work.

Thanks for your reply. I'm literally covered up on a number of different platforms with nusy. Doing, besides Fox, SQL Server 2008 R2 and C#.