Thanks Jordon, but when we bought the Dell computer, Windows XP was already installed. We have had the computer for nearly 2 years now and it just started happening in the Spring ( around May). What are VFP apps? I have a feeling that we are missing some files...but if we were why would my account work okay? There are 3 accounts on this computer, Mine, my sons, and my fiance`, Mine works fine, but the other two get the error message. Please let me know what VFP apps are, maybe that would help. And do you know what Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library is? That might help if I knew what it was and if you have any other suggestions, that would be great.

Thanks,
Diane