>> Well, that explains it. The network guy did the install of VFP7 and probably thought that that was good enough.
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>Yup. Same thing happened to me at my day job. They had to finish the installation the next time they came to my location. Good luck, and try to build an InstallShield project before they leave. I had to have my sysadmins (network guys) back again after I discovered that none of the merge modules were accessible to me (an ordinary user). They did something with my permission levels (made me a superuser?) and now all is working again.

Good advice Randy, Thanks.