Hmmm ... Your citing this reminds me of reading something about this in the MSDN docs during my roamings to try to understand it. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll have to see what I need to do to convert the C code to VFP. Thanks again Ed.

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>It's overwhelmingly likely that while the account may be granted the privilege, you need to set the process token set using AdjustTokenPrivilege() API call. The following is cut from the MSDN docs

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Enabling and Disabling Privileges
>The following example shows how to enable or disable a privilege in an access token. The example calls the LookupPrivilegeValue function to get the LUID that the local system uses to identify the privilege. Then the example calls the AdjustTokenPrivileges function, which either enables or disables the privilege that depends on the value of the bEnablePrivilege parameter.
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BOOL SetPrivilege(
>    HANDLE hToken,          // access token handle
>    LPCTSTR lpszPrivilege,  // name of privilege to enable/disable
>    BOOL bEnablePrivilege   // to enable or disable privilege
>    )
>{
>TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tp;
>LUID luid;
>
>if ( !LookupPrivilegeValue(
>        NULL,            // lookup privilege on local system
>        lpszPrivilege,   // privilege to lookup
>        &luid ) ) {      // receives LUID of privilege
>    printf("LookupPrivilegeValue error: %u\n", GetLastError() );
>    return FALSE;
>}
>
>tp.PrivilegeCount = 1;
>tp.Privileges[0].Luid = luid;
>if (bEnablePrivilege)
>    tp.Privileges[0].Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
>else
>    tp.Privileges[0].Attributes = 0;
>
>// Enable the privilege or disable all privileges.
>
>AdjustTokenPrivileges(
>       hToken,
>       FALSE,
>       &tp,
>       sizeof(TOKEN_PRIVILEGES),
>       (PTOKEN_PRIVILEGES) NULL,
>       (PDWORD) NULL);
>
>// Call GetLastError to determine whether the function succeeded.
>
>if (GetLastError() != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
>      printf("AdjustTokenPrivileges failed: %u\n", GetLastError() );
>      return FALSE;
>}
>
>return TRUE;
>}
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