ok, now I'm really confused because there are other VFP8 executables that are running on the production machine.

Strike that - the exe's that are running are from an earlier versions of VFP.

>VFP8 requires it http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP8RuntimeFiles
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>>Thanks for the redirect, I will certainly look in more detail later. On a hunch, commented out those two lines of code, rebuild the exe (recompiled all) and am still getting the error. I guess I will have to look further, but I'm not seeing anything that would require msvcr70.dll
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