>Hello,
>
>I am in the process of installing NT 4.0 on my home machine. When I
>was trying to install VFP 5.0 on it (I know, I'm a little behind the
>power curve since 5.5 is being released soon LOL) I got some errors
>trying to load the Paradox drivers.
>
>Apparently, MS decided to make the Paradox ODBC drivers an essential
>part of the installation process as the installation failed. Why, I
>have no idea as I would think that they really wouldn't care about
>Paradox, but....
>
>Anyway, the error text is "Can't load mspdox35.dll (error code=126)"
>
>Anyone seen this before?
>
>It seems to have installed everything else correctly, just that when
>it failed, it didn't create the program groups and such, but I am
>wondering why this would bring it to a halt.....
>
>I guess I'll create my own groups, and hope nothing else was omitted
>when the setup failed....
>
>MTIA,
>Scot.
I ran into this one. What you need to do is download the latest ODBC drivers from MS. Install these on the machine prior to installing VFP or any VFP apps that you create. This will install the correct DLL's and the error goes away.

George