There was a post similar to this a little while back. It had to do with the Temp folder being missing, or having the hidden or system attributes set. It was on 12/18/2000, Thread #454886.

>Hi
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>I am running VFP 5, when I use the beautify option from the menu, the BEAUTIFY FORM does open, and I make my selections, but then the code is not changed.
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>the system variable _BEAUTIFY is pointing to a file on my c: drive, this file does exist.
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>Can any one help ?
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>Regards
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>Steven Bowskill