Brenda,

>** in my main
>oSDI=CREATEOBJECT("APPTOPLEVELFORM")
>oSDI.SHOW()

This doesn't happen in dev mode does it? You need to seed enough debug code in to the code to isolate the specific line of code that's throwing the error. You can strtofile() the progress to file that you can view from outside VFP.

>I have downloaded VFP 6.0 SP5 and will try it today. Can VFP 8.0 be used on the older Win95 machines? Also, our original software was converted from FoxPro and has browse windows, uses SAVE TO and CREATE VIEW, _SCREEN.Visible = .T. for reports, and a other older styles of programming. Is 8.0 100% compatible with older versions?

I don't know of any backwards compatability of commands for 8, but I never use a lot of those old 2.x style commands anyway, I've been able completely distance myself from that old code.

>Last question and it is off topic but things have gone from bad to worse - I have put myself in a bit of a jam by putting my laptop into safe mode via changing the boot.ini through the msconfig. Now when the Atl+Cntl+Del screen is displayed, my laptop's keyboard and mouse do not work. I have pressed F8 and get the option screen, but no matter what I choose I still go into Safe Mode. Any ideas how I can either get it out of Safe Mode, change the boot.ini, or get control of a keyboard or mouse.

Do you have a boot floppy? Can you make one from another machine? That should at least allow you to boot to DOS so you can edit the ini file.