I guess, Sergey, that it's just another one of those mysterious things that happen with Windows systems. Must be indirectly dependent on configuration or something.

The VFP7 installed did report completely clean.

Mine was Win98SE as well. Haven't done my Win2K system yet. Still a bit nervous about SP2 there and would really like to have that done before installing VFP.

Cheers



>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?
>>
>>Thanks