>Cetin
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>Thanks for your response.
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>I may be wrong but your first code looks familiar and returns the executable associated with the extension.
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>To explain further, what I trying to detemine is if a certain non VFP application has been installed and thus registered. The path returned is then used in the VFP application.
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>If the non VFP application has not been installed in its default folder, IF FILE() etc will fail. I have a .prg will will perform a recursive search for xxxx.exe, but that takes time, hence wanting to retrieve the information from the registry.
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>Dennis

Dennis,
First should look familiar :) As I said it's from solution.app modified a bit.
It queries reg for associations.
VFP uses the path for nonVFP doesn't support automation ? IOW your problem solved ?
Cetin