I ran that, got a msg that it ran successfully (also went into the tools/options menu and checked the enabled box on the controls tab) and am still getting the license msg. I had seen a msg that mentions a file named Foxreg that might take care of this but havn't been able to locate it. Seems kinda funny that I should be getting this msg and can only assume that when vfp installed it missed a step in registering the control. There is an entry in the registry but... Any suggestions?