Hi Nick.

>I have an employee program in e:\employee directory. Everytime I do stonefield Database Explorer I get a textbox requesting system name with default in the textbox as e:\.

Find the call to the OpenMetaData method in the Init method of SDT.SCX and change it to:

.OpenMetaData(fullpath(lcPath), llCreate)

Note the use of FULLPATH. This prevents SDT from finding the wrong entry in the Registry when a partial path (such as "DATA\") is used.

Doug