>The one reason which may compell me to switch to Access97, or Oracle 8 is the fact that any one can go directly to my client's data folder and double-click on his dbf files and view them, without going through the password sentry in the opening page of the application which I have mede.
>How can I protect the data, in VFP.
>Help..

You could use something like Cryptor by Xitech. I think this will do what you require and shouldn't place an overhead on your application.