yeah, the key thing is probably downloading to disk first - I experienced the same problem until I did that...
>FYI, I installed VFP8 Beta without any problems with Norton AV (Version 8.07.17C) enabled, and I have spaces in the path to the setup.exe file also.
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>>No, the message could be the result of 2 things:
>>Instead of running the setup directly, make sure you unzip to your disk and then run the install. Also disable any Norton background virus scanning.
>>>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?
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>>>Terry