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>>I ran into what's probably the same thing when building COM EXEs. I had to run VFP9 as Administrator; in my case I wanted auto-registration to happen, it wouldn't if I ran as a non-elevated user.
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>It seems there's another possibility if you want auto-registration
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>http://www.atoutfox.org/articles.asp?ACTION=FCONSULTER&ID=0000000845
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>Solution C3
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>- Start Regedit
>- rightclick on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
>- take Permissions
>- add your account (or a developer's account)
>- check Allow of both Full Control and Read

Thanks for the info. I'll have to keep this in mind, as well as other numerous "patches" and add-ins that I'll have to consider to deal with "user experience" issues that will inevitably occur as I migrate everybody else away from Win XP (I remember the difficulty folks seemed to have with migration from Win9x to WinXP... The changes will likely be even more drastic).