>>I knew there had to be some serious gotcha, it's a M$ control, it can't possibly do everthing as expected, there must be something to have experience with. It's the .initDir property. When you call the comCtl.showOpen() (and probably other file-oriented actions), it doesn't just display that folder. IT GOES THERE and takes you with it. It changes YOUR current directory, typical M$ roughshod style.
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>>This being not the first time I ran into this type of issue with M$'s pieces, it was easy to spot on time. Still, M$, WHY?
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>Feature, not bug :)
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>IIRC some of the native VFP functions that do this sort of thing also change the current directory unexpectedly.

Probably wrappers around windows API stuff which does that.