>Is there a way to set MVCOUNT other than in the CONFIG.FPW (in VFP6.0). Somehow my clients lose the fpw file, or they try to make a new link on the destop, and then the EXE runs fine, but when I try to run my reporting system (FoxFire!), I get a "not enough memvars" error message.

Have your app write a config.fpw and then quit if it hadn't found it in the first place (or was there some function to force VFP to re-read the config.fpw?), so it will have it on the next run.