>I'm not familiar with what you're saying. Is -A a Dos command? What's the syntax, just -A and the path to the foxpro exe?

It's VFP command-line switch. See 'command-line switches' in the help for deatils. The -A switch forces VFP to ignore the configuration file and Windows registry settings. Right click on the VFP8 shortcut and add -A after 'VFP8.EXE' in the target field.