>There is most likely a group policy in place, so the domain settings are getting applied to your PC. It should be easy to fix by changing your code where indicated.
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Hi Craig,

just out of interest, what group policy could affect the STRICTDATE setting in VFP? I believe what has happened is that when the user connected to the DOMAIN they got a new registry hive (or whatever it's called) created where the SET STRICTDATE setting for VFP went back to the default value.