Hi Jim,
I installed VFP 7 downloaded from MSDN site on Win98SE and Win2kPro w/o any problem and shortcuts on start menu work fine.

>I had a nice smoothe install of Windows Component Updates, VFP 7, the updates, InstallShield Express and SOAP Toolkit 2.0. I had NO betas (VFP7 nor .NET) installed on the machine.
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>After completion I went to the Start menu to start 'er up. But when I clicked "Microsoft Visual Foxpro 7.0" in the list, the list disappeared and nothing happened.
>Right-clicking on that entry and then clicking "Properties" showed a virtually empty sheet. There was nothing in there telling the system where to start it from.
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>I got it started by finding it in C:\Program Files... and also placed a shortcut onto the Desktop for later use.
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>Anyone else get this?... or have ideas as to how it happened?
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>Thanks