The fact that I get :

"Could not locate registry entry for OLE DB provider 'VFPOLEDB.1'."

when I execute this sqlserver express r8:

select * from openrowset ('VFPOLEDB.1', 'c:\data\plucz\plucz.dbc'; ' '; ' ','select * from polished')
go

is a 64bit issue right? No point in exploring this any further, is what I'm really asking.

From about in management studio:

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio						10.50.1600.1
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)						6.1.7600.16385
Microsoft MSXML						3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 
Microsoft Internet Explorer						8.0.7600.16385
Microsoft .NET Framework						2.0.50727.4963
Operating System						6.1.7600