I run VFP 8 on a notebook PC with Win98SE and 32 MB RAM. Does not seem to prevent the development for me so far. :) In fact, I did VFP 8 demonstration at Chicago User Group on this notebook. IMHO, I believe that MS just does not want to support it on Win98.

I had this GDIPLUS.DLL problem too once, and yes, you can just copy it.

Not that I am saying you should run it on Win98... :)

>Win 98 seems not allowing development :(
>from setup's readme (System Requirements):
>
>----- System Requirements ----
>Operating System: Developing applications with Visual FoxPro 8.0 is only supported on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 and later, and Windows XP. You can create and distribute run-time applications for Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or later, and Windows XP.
>Note Installation on Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition is not supported.
>----- System Requirements ----
>
>franco
>
>>For Testing I've just installed the VFP8 Beta on a Win98-Machine
>>
>>The installation went through without problems, but I could not start it.
>>
>>An error "cannot find GDIPLUS.DLL" appeared and VFP never started.
>>
>>I located the GDIPLUS.DLL in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP
>>(witch is C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Microsoft Shared\VFP in Germany) where
>>all the VFP-related stuff is stored and normally found without problems.
>>
>>So I simply moved (actually) copied it to C:\Windows\System\
>>
>>and VFP started without arguing.
>>
>>Thought this could be interesting to someone.