>>>The report writer is looking for the default application that is assocaited with BMP files.. So, if the machines do NOT have a copy of paint.exe or mspaint.exe, they will have this error.. Found this out the hard way working with SBT accounting system.
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>>That's what I suspected, but Paint was re-installed on one system and it still doesn't work. Are there any particular steps that I should follow to make it work again?
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>What I would think is that paint needs to be installed properly, not just copied onto the machine.... The registry needs to have the settings to find what VFP is looking for...


I believe it was installed. I'm basing that statement on the fact that it had a file association for .BMP files.