Interesting....had you installed other WinXP patches since SP1?

>It certainly looks that way because it is working fine now.
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>>>Thanks for the idea Sergey. I complete forgot about the -A switch. I just
>>>forced WinXP SP1 to reinstall and that fixed it. I must have overwritten one of the required files somehow earlier.
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>>Hi Tracy,
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>>So problem was with WinXP not VFP8?