I am aware of that I am speaking more things like print preview etc. What a kludge.

Being on by default.

It is a Foxpro -3.0 feature (fox 2.0 - 2.6) and really has no place in windows in my opinion. Since they have not dealt with the problem in over 8 years and I suspect so internal to some VFP Development Enviroment stuff you have left over problems like VFP 8.0 not being able to handle Foxuser.dbf problems gracefully. I would have never thought to look at the Foxuser file to be some of the cause of the blowups that this thread was started on.

I will assure you on 9.0 I will go back to the my prior to VFP 8.0 sentinments. Purchase after SP1 ships.

>>I really whish they would get rid of the FoxUser file totally. Its about time.
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>SET RESOURCE OFF, and Save As Default on your Tools:Options dialog.