>1)Try to determine if something is wrong with the project:
>Try installing VS on a new machine. Copy all the source code onto the machine except the project *.pj? files. Create a new project and add you main prg and rebuild and run the software. Do you get the same error?
>
>2) If that fails reinstall Windows


I made a copy of my entire project and put it onto my Win98 machine. It already have VS on it. Then I ran the EXE that was failing on the NT machine. No problem. Everything launches as expected. So for further validation, I recompiled the EXE on the Win98 machine so I had a new EXE and ran that. No problem again.

I went back to the NT development machine and created a new project with just the framework in it: nothing to do with the other project. Compiled it and generated an EXE. I try to run the EXE and no luck. "Cannot Locate ..." So I copy the EXE over to the Win98 machine and voila! It runs as expected.

So I'm figuring at this point, this is a problem that's specific to my NT Machine and less on the project's I've created. I'm going to try Bruce Campbell's suggestion of searching the registry for references to VFP6r.dll and VFP6enu.ell before I go the reinstall Window's route. Ed Rauh's appears to be a wizard in this area ... maybe he has other ideas.

As for reinstallting Windows, yes. Thanks for the advice. That makes me squeamish. With so many pathces and fixes, service packs, and what not, I'm just never sure I'll have the same system I had before the reinstall. Do you know of a "safe" way to do this? Were you suggesting installing WinNT over itself?

(I'm probably straying into a non-VFP forum but I couldn't help.)

Thanks Evan, I appreciate your input.