Jim,

>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.

Looks like that ...

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>The VFP7 installed did report completely clean.
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>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.

I installed SP2 before VFP 7. I like to keep my Windows OS current :)