>Hello people,
>
>I recently downloaded SP3 and installed, and since then
>I can not find component gallery. I reinstalled VFP6 and then
>tried to use component gallery: the same error. REinstalled
>SP3: same error.
>
>What in the world happening to me? Has anyone experienced
>this behavior. I used the component gallery before
>the SP3 installation.
>
>Need help.
>
>Aiko

Hi Aiko:

I had the same problem on two of four systems after installing SP3. Can't say whether or not I had it before that, as I had never gotten around to trying it before. Not sure I have solved it permanently, as I got too busy to continue, but what worked for me was to 1) ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS - REMOVE ALL VFP, 2) USE WINDOWS EXPLORER and completely delete the entire VFP directory manually (which as usual in these stupid half-assed uninstall programs did not delete all files). Before the new install, I 3) also tried using Norton System Doctor and Norton Registry Editor to be sure all references to VFP were removed from the Registry -- which the stupid uninstall program also did not do completely. The combination of all those steps essentially made it like a fresh system. Then 4) INSTALL VFP from scratch, then 5) INSTALL SP3. Bingo, ** sometimes ** it worked....

BEGIN UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY: A lot of people hated the DOS days and separate directories for each program and lack of 'integrated uninstall' utilities, but AFAIK, the situation in Windows-9x/NT sucks... Hundreds of MB of garbage is ALWAYS left around after a so-called uninstall by any program, with the only way to really clean stuff up being a manual approach that requires way too much technical skills. MS is one of the worst offenders -- one more way to force you to use their stuff whether you want to or not. But no one is without guilt on this, and I don't see any meaningful relief in the future as long as Windows stay a monopoly environment. At least in the DOS days you could usually just DELTREE the entire directory in question and maybe need to do minimal cleanup of AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS/WIN.INI - with not so much technical skill needed, and not have that extremely fragile and totally unfriendly registry to be stuck with... END UNSOLICITE COMMENTARY.

Anyhow, HTH.

Rob