>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.

As Ed mentioned, VFP 6.0 has a vcx for manipulating the registry. This same program was also available in VFP 5.0 as registry.prg.

>By the way, while looking in WIN.INI I found a section named [PrinterPorts]. It lists each printer, the port and the driver name but without the extension of .DRV. Do you think it would be safe to use this?
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Under Win 9x, sure. I'm not so certain about NT, however. Easiest way would be to use the GetProfileString() API call. As I recall, the registry.vcx class library may have a class that does this in 6.0. For previous versions, there's my INIFiles class that's available here (under Win32 and Other APIs) for download.