That did the trick - sorry for the confusion and thanks for the help.

Jeff

>>No - only one copy. I had VFP3 on this machine, but I installed VFP5 most reciently.
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>I see below you said you downloaded VFP50A.EXE. I have no clue as to what that is. What I was talking about was a Service Pack 3 to Visual Studio 97, which VFP 5 was a part of. This service pack will update all the components of VS97, even if all you have is the VFP part. I suggest you try downloading that, as there should be no instructions to "copy over" anything. The SP will handle everything itself.
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>>>>>I Have 05.00.00.0344 fow Windows [Aug 21 1996 bla bla bla
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>>>>>I guess I'm about a year old to your update.
>>>>>
>>>>>Jeff
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>>>>If that's what yours shows, that's the original release (5.0). I don't know what you updated, but it's not what you're actually running with. Do you have more than 1 copy of VFP4 installed?
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>>>Whoops, make that VFP5!
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>>>>>
>>>>>>>I downloaded the VFP50a.exe that contains the fixes to the wizards and such -- followed the readme directions in coping over the old files with the updates. Now I rebooted and tried to run the vfpy2k.exe. It still gives me the error to install service pack 3. Any ideas?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>TIA,
>>>>>>>Jeff
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>>>>>>If you type "?VERSION(1)" from the command window, does it say:
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>>>>>>Visual FoxPro 05.00.00.0415 for Windows [Oct 21 1997 13:31:18]
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Where do I go to find the latest service pack for my VFP 5.0? I tried to update the y2k fix for my version only to have it tell me that I need Service Pack 3 to preform the fix.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Goto msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro and look for Samples and Downloads, Product Updates.
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>>>>>>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/downloads/updates.asp is the direct link. It's right under the Y2K update.