No, that didn't help. The error is that CONVERT.EXE is not a VFP exe and it is trying to run the CONVERT.EXE in the WinNT\System32 directory. Why the F*** is VFP8 looking outside of the project/directory for the program???

>>I converting an application from VFP6 to VFP8 and have a program called CONVERT which handles some code for bar codes. In VFP6 (and earlier) there is no problem. Now in VFP8 I am getting an error that the CONVERT.EXE is not found. The program is in the project. For some reason, VFP8 is search the path instead of the program in the EXE. I have another program that uses the same function and I do not get that error. Any ideas why it behaves this way?
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>Check the contents of the _converter system variable. It defaults to home()+"some path\convert.app". You may want to include a line
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_converter=""

>in a config.fpw file for your exe, or to include that somewhere in the setup code. Somehow I think it remembers that there should be a runnable convert.exe or convert.app somewhere, and telling it to forget about it should be worth a try.