>I do not use outlook as my mailer. I downloaded the VFP 8 beta set, unzipped and ran "SETUP". On of the first things setup did was look for "intalled components". SETUP aborted with a "could not find .. component" message.
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>I will clean up the last download, and download the beta set again, and retry.
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>Has anyone else had to negotiate a "could not find component" error when running VFP8 setup?

Yes - I didn't unzip into a completely empty directory; re-extracting to an empty directory made it work just fine.