>Has anyone seen this before? My client running Win98 installed a prototype I put togther and the checkboxes appeared slanted when the app first started. He swears he didn't retouch with Photoshop.

You need to set CheckBox.Italic = .f.

Seriously, though, I have not idea what would cause it.

>I suppose it had something to do with updated MFC classes that got installed

VFP doesn't use MFC. We like to try and keep VFP as slim as possible. :-)