>Plinio,
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>Thank-you for that advice & link. However, I already have SP5. My product version says '06.00.8961.00' under 'about FoxPro'. If you have SP5, then I think yous should say the same. I believe that the version is updated each time you install a service pack and the version number that I have is what's for SP5.
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>maybe I'm missing something.

When you first ran Setup Lizard, it gave you the option of creating a directory to hold your common distribution files, or allowing you to select the standard one that the VFP install created. If you chose to create a new directory to hold your distribution files rather than the DISTRIB.SRC folder that VFP created during install, SP5 may not have updated your runtime components correctly. You should copy the contents of the DISTRIB.SRC folder and its subfolders (Setup and System) into your current distribution file folder, overwriting the older files with the new versions from SP5.

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>Wally