>>The MSVCR70.DLL is VC++ library that's required to run VFP7. See INFO: Resources for InstallShield Express for Visual FoxPro mskb #Q320152 for more details.
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>Why did this change from VFP 3-6, where the only other required files were the VFP(version+language) DLLs? It cost me several hours of my life and some of dwindling hair..

Two reasons. VFP 7.0 uses some VC++.NET, I believe. Also, we didn't have to distribute the VC++ support files because they were already distributed in the OS. Since VFP 7.0 came out before OS versions that will have the new VC++ runtimes aren't common. IOW, you needed them before, you just didn't know it.

As for losing hair...I sympathize. I do get frustrated when I lose time to a problem that turns out to be documented. But I can't really blame MS for that. There is a well-written and thorough read me about deploying VFP apps on the VFP setup disk under technical papers called VFPDEPLOY.