>>Due to some special requirements of my program, i have decided to use a third party installation program to install my software.
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>We had an extremly long thread on that 2 weeks ago. This mention was discussed as well as other things involved in using an external tool to install Visual FoxPro. One of them was concerning to the fact that it is not legal to use another tool other than the setup wizard of Visual FoxPro to install Visual FoxPro. :) That thread was also mentioning all the required files to install, etc.

Hi! Me again!

The specific error that Darren is getting is not because of registry problems, though that will bite him in other ways, but because one of the operating system support files (I believe oleaut32.dll) is out of sync with the version of vfp500.dll that he is using.

This error is actually well documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. It's in article Q158064 and if you dont have it, their web address is http://www.microsoft.com/kb

This article points out how to properly replace this .dll, and also cautions that doing so in Windows NT v3.51 without intervention from a Service Pack is hazardous to the system.

Let me know if there are questions.