Both of these seemed to work fine. Very odd.

>Hi Brett,
>
>>Getting the error
>>"File getprivateprofilestring.prg does not exist"
>>The app works fine on Windows 2000. Any ideas?
>
>very interesting problem ... usually this should work without any problems. The error possibly occurs in cINIFile. If you have VFP installed on that machine I'd try this in the command window:
>
>

>DECLARE INTEGER GetPrivateProfileString IN Win32API ;
>  String cSection, String cKey, String cDefault, String @cBuffer, ;
>  Integer nBufferSize, String cINIFile
>
>lcBuffer = SPACE(255) + CHR(0)
>
>*-- Replace tcSection, tcEntryName and lcINIFile with valid information of
>*-- your ini file.
>lnNumBytes = GetPrivateProfileString(tcSection, tcEntryName, "", ;
>                            @lcBuffer, LEN(lcBuffer), lcINIFile)
>? LEFT(lcBuffer, lnNumBytes)
>

>
>If this works, shut down VFP, restart and try this:
>
>

>CD yourprojectdir
>DO setx
>x = createobject("cINIFile")
>*-- Again replace the variables
>? x.Get(tcSection, tcEntryName, "ERROR", tcINIFile)
>

>
>and see, if this works.
>
>HTH,
>Armin