I guess, it's time to write a FAQ about this common problem. You have to subclass common dialog (and couple of other controls) in order to be able to use them. Drop the control on the form and use this class in your applications. Search MS KB on this problem.

Re: Problems with Windows98 & VFP 7.0 Thread #737833 Message #737834

Sergey, will you write it?

>I have a user that gets an error when the following code is executed:
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>  loDialog = CreateObject('MSComDlg.CommonDialog')
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>The user has Windows 2000 Pro. Is there something that I need to distribute or check for?
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>Thanks.
>Doug