What os are you running on the laptop and desktop? cdonts is used within iis to send mail and i am not too sure if it is installed by default if iis is not installed. also i don't know if it is included in xp as as far as i know cdonts was being phased out so although it is in 2k may not be in xp/2003.
Cheers
~M


>I dont think that is the right fix. I have VFP8 installed on both my laptop and my pc. My laptop works fine but my pc doesn't.
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>Neither the pc or the laptop have the "cdonts.dll". Also it was working but now it is not. Clearly something has been uninstalled or overwritten.
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>I have to wipe my pc soon so will see if it is still a problem then.
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>Regards
>Geoff
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>>Hi,
>> VFP may only be checking that the service is there, make sure everything is available as per the MSKB article states, and see what happens. Let me know if it fixes the problem.