It shouldn't, but my first thought was VFP is interacting with the system date to show/suppress that message. I don't know. It could also be lack of sleep last night.

>Hi Craig,
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>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.