Ed - I'll try it, but WHY would I need the DCOM components on a plain-vanilla form with nothing but pageframes and grids? This is VFP5.

Thanks,
Barbara

>Bring NT to SP3 or SP4, which add the DCOM components, as will adding IE 3.02 or later.
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>On Win95 boxes, add DCOM via DCOM95 from the MS site, DCOM98 from the VS distribution, or add IE 3.02 or later.