>I have an Icon on my Windows 2003 desktop which has the following command
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>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9.exe" " c:\lennart\swedish.exe" that works well and opens up the program

Why are you running your EXE in the VFP IDE, instead of running it as an EXE? That requires every user to have a licensed version of VFP.

Tamar