>Perhaps a Registry problem. <snip> Other than the things we've discussed and possible corruption of some sort on that specific machine, I don't know what it might be. If no one else jumps in with more info, you might post the request with all known info to one of the system experts like Ed Rauh or George Tasker. They know approximately 10**12 more than me on system stuff. :-)

This is really getting on my nerves - so if any of the 10**12 guys want to jump in, feel free.

The cause is any use of the run command. Once it executes, I can't use anything that calls a std WIN File Open dialog. This includes File>Open, Program>Do, getfile() and locfile(). No other running programs are affected and closing VFP and reopening it clears the problem.

I again uninstalled VS, did all the usual housekeeping and installed it - but this time to a different drive on the same machine. No difference (growl).

Just thought I'd make one more plea before getting out the registry machete...LOL.

Thanks,