Thanks Victor, I suspect somehow I missed this when I installed the VFP off the DVD.

>he task manager requires MSXML 4.0 to be installed.
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>Download and install from https://www.microsoft.com:443/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=7F6C0CB4-7A5E-4790-A7CF-9E139E6819C0&displaylang=en
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>>I have just installed VFP 9 (with SP2 and hotfixes, etc.) and the opening Task Pane Manager- Start does open but gives the following error:
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>>"0.Class definition MSXML.2.DOMDOCUMENT.4.0 is not found"
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>>Anyone know how to fix this? It actaully gave this error on first install with just VFP 9 before I applied the SP2.
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>>Thanks in advance for any help.