>Cindy earlier pointed out option 2 that you gave and that is probably
>the road I am headed down. I would however, really like to hear the techincal reasons that win95 and wts4 cannot be supported. I'm not saying there is some big plan at ms to get all of us to buy an upgrade :), I just honestly would like to know the reasons.

I'll add my $.02 - I think it's not supported because VFP 8 now requires the GDI+ library (I think it's used for all form rendering to support XP themes). I don't think GDI+ supports Win95, so, by default, VFP 8 doesn't support Win95 (note: this is speculation on my part).