Kermit,

You can contact MS PSS. VFP8 includes two installation support incidents at no charge. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;Prodoffer25a

>Thanks for the response Mark, the RunOnce registry settings for both HKLM & HKCU state (value not set). The RunOnceEX setting also indicates (value not set)
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>I'm running Windows 2000 SP2 on a Dell P4 2GHz. I tried installing it on my laptop and it installed with no problems, it was also running Win2k but it had SP3 installed.
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>I just tried installing InstallShield Express first and it installed with no problems. I was hoping it would clear the error but it did not.
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>I've searched the Microsoft KB & Google with no luck.
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>It's day two now and I still can't get past this point.
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>Thanks again!