Thanks for the suggestion. But both these problem PCs run WinXP.
Cyril.


>Cyril,
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>The only time i have come across this is when the operating system of the machine with the problem is Win95, Crystal 9 does not work with win95, and cannot be installed on it, but if you copy the runtimes to the correct location you can still launch the viewer and preview reports using CR9 and Win 95, unfortunaelty i have not been able to get the export options to work on Win95 machiine and i doubt the boys over at Crystal decisions will be much help seeing as it is not supported in Win95!!