>>Who's Mike? :-)
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>Oops! I was waiting for a reply from Mike Helland when I got your input.
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I was told I look something like Dan LeClair. I don't look like Mike Helland too, do I? :-)

>>The path I referred to is the NT environment variable PATH. You can see what it is set to by right-clicking on the My Computer (or whatever you have changed it to)icon and select Properties - Environment or running the Windows NT Diagnostics utility and going to the Environment tab.
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>>Make sure you SYSTEM32 directory is in the path. It may have been changed by some software install.
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>Thanks for the clarification. I looked and no, C:\Winnt\System32 is still there in the Path.
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>Ed Rauh suggested letting VFP's setup wizard rebuild the environment for a number of registry related reasons. I tried that but it didn't work. Man I'm stuck! If you get any other ideas, I'm all ears. ONE BIG EAR!

I've had problems with pathing issues in the past. I haven't spent a lot of time tracking it down because I had a work around (copying it to the same directory). There is one other benefit to each application having its own run times and that is you can have different versions of VFP running on the same machine without recompiling all of your applications.