>George,
> thanks for the info. Because I need this to change from the default printer it looks like I'm going to have to learn to read the registry from within VFP. Is there any simple way? I understand what I need I'm just not sure how to do it in VFP.
>

If you have VFP6, there's a class in the FFC that will read and write the registry for text values. There's also INI file handling in the FFC.

VFP5 and earlier versions are supported by a number of classes downloadable from here on UT. In all of these cases, including the FFC class, calls to the Win32 API are used to do the actual work.

If you have the WSH available, Wscript.Shell has methods to read/write in the registry; see FAQ #7885, or the links in my .sig