Hi Mark:

Thanks for your feedback. No, I don't know what I really did either but that's why I'm in recover mode. I agree and understand; renaming the VFP directory just for the heck of it is a bad idea because of registry reference. When I did it, it was with the intention of preparing to reinstall VFP. (Uninstall of VFP didn't seem remove everything it should have ... that was BEFORE the rename game).

I think Visual Studio would have uninstalled completely if I hadn't subsequently installed Service Pack 3. Only selected components were left afer the uninstall and I'm suspicious that SP3 claimed them as its own. Then when regular uninstall came along, it left it in place.

The rename idea was to leave the mess that's still there alone now, and reinstall. I just wanted to use the same name.

E.g.

1.  Rename \Microsoft Visual Studio 
              to
           \Old Microsoft Visual Studio

2.  Reinstall to \Microsoft Visual Studio 

We'll see. Thanks again for the opinion.


>I am not sure what you really did, but just renaming the VFP home directory is highly NOT recommended. So much is also stored in the Registry. If you have run the uninstall, I would delete the old VFP home directory [save what you need out of it of course].
>
>Then when you reinstall, the registry entries will be corrected as well.
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>>Any idea what's going on?
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>>1. If I renamed the directory containing VFP6.EXE, say from "\Program Files\Microsoft ..." to "\Program Files\HIDE-Microsoft ..." how is it my VFP6 shortcut whose target is "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VFP98\VTP6.exe" still finds the target?
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>>2. I just uninstalled Visual Studio 6 (SP3) because of a sudden inability to get compiled EXE's to see or recognize the runtime library in C:\WinNT\System32 (VFP6r.dll, VFP6enu.dll). My intent was to reinstall in hopes the correct things would get put back into place. BUTT, when the uninstall was done, VFP6.EXE was still there. Control Panel's Add/Remove no longer showed Studio as being installed but oh yes, it's still where it was.
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>>Any clues? Notwihstanding, I just want to wipe out what's there and start over. I could just delete everything manually. What would you do?