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>>Did you by any chance just install SP4?
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>I wish it were some event taht obvious. No, I'm still on VFP6 SP3.
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>And still drawing blanks, I reinstalled SP3 *just to see if* it made a difference. Nada again. What would you do? I'm on the brink of uninstalling and reinstalling Visual Studio altogether. Like why not reinstall Windows too?!?!? All ideas welcomed Erik.

If you have already a tried a setup wizard built install and verified that the exe wasn't built with a different version of VFP (or different SP3), then I would just reinstall. Just make a backup of your foxuser.dbf and any other stuff you don't want overwritten.

Erik Moore
Clientelligence