The search path is 1002 chars, but i tried with 10 char and get the same result, id did not see any other settings affected.

>How long is search path? Are any other settings affected?
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>>I tried on 2 different machine, WINXP Pro SP1 and a WIN2K Server SP3 and i see the same behavior. Both machine still have VFP7 installed.
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>>>Does it save and uses other setting? There're three things that can overwrite settins in the registry
>>>1. Command-line -A switch
>>>2. PATH= in the config.fpw
>>>3. SET PATH TO in the VFP startup program.
>>>Did you check all of them?