>LOL! How many votes for Ghost does that make now? 5? Ok, you've convinced me. Now I need to convince Matt. :)
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle
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>>Michelle,
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>>Here's an idea.
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>>Get ahold of Norton's Ghost program. Unistall VFP from a machine and then ghost the drive. Try your installer, if it fails Ghost from the drive you ghosted to to restore the machine to pristine shape.

Another option is to use a product like UnInstaller or CleanSweep Deluxe on the system before beginning any installations. Both products make an exact record of all changes made during the install process, including archiving old versions of DLLs, registry values et al. Rather than using the Windows Add/Remove Program applet, use the uninstaller app to remove the apps that it managed during the install. Much better than the default WinApp.

CleanSweep Deluxe does a pretty thorough job of cleaning up VFP even if VFP was installed before CleanSweep Deluxe; CleanSweep Deluxe has uninstall heuristics for a few hundred common WinApps built in.

Another vote for Ghost or PQ's DriveImage or Adaptec ImageBackup (what I use, since it lets me shoot tapes to my DAT drive, which hold ~8GB uncompressed, handles all disk media formats including various FAT. NTFS and ?nix partitions, and a backup cost less than $15/tape. You need a SCSI-based DAT and Adaptec-compatible HA to shoot tapes; the software comes as part of Adaptec's EZ-SCSI package, and does DAT/DLT/AIT tape, local, removable or network disk, CD-R, DVD-RAM and Internet images. Restore uses a DOS boot floppy and drivers for the backup device. Handles NT/2K SID generation.)