>>>Thanks George. It seems CONFIG.FPW does not take affect unless the EXE is executing. If the PRG is running inside the deveopement environment, the temp files go to the "Temporay Files" as specified in the Tools->Options->File Locatins tab.
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>>>Weird!
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>>Not weird at all. Cofig.fpw is aread from the home() directory, which is the local directory for your exe. Your VFP's home directory, well, that's a
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?home()

>>So if it can't find your config.fpw there... you may try to launch VFP by double-clicking a table or a class or something in this directory, then it should be the home(), but I'm not sure.
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>Thanks Dragan, I was under the false impression that my local CONFIG.FPW would process simply by DOing a PRG inside the VFP desktop. My understanding now is that CONFIG.FPW sets once - either when VFP is openeded - or a VFP EXE is requested.

DEtails are in help under "Setting Configuration Options at Startup", where it says "Visual FoxPro reads the configuration file when starting up, establishing the settings and executing the commands in the file. Settings made in the configuration file override default settings made in the Options dialog box (and stored in the Windows registry)."