>>>by "Design For XP test application" do you mean the application called "AppVerifier" that comes in a windows testing SDK pack?
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>>Hi Chris,
>>yes I mean the same.
>>If our application past and VFX RAD framework past it 2 weeks ago there no reason your application to crash
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>How do you tell VFP to find the CONFIG.FPW and FOXUSER.DBF a different way?
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>A small section of the log when running a simple VFP app (single PRG compiled as EXE) is as follows:
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>| FilePaths 1 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 2 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 3 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 1 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 2 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 1 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 2 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 3 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem\config.fpw'.
>| FilePaths 1 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\FOXUSER.DBF'.
>| FilePaths 2 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\FOXUSER.DBF'.
>| FilePaths 3 | 2 vfp8r.dll 20960'Hardcoded path found in path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\FOXUSER.DBF'.
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>So VFP is not retrieving system paths using functions correctly in the API it seems? Is this a configuration option because the VFP8 IDE doesn't throw these errors (although I do realise that the VFP IDE isn't a VFP application...)
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>Chris

Chris -
I find it strange that your config.fpw and foxuser.dbf files are in the system32\.. directories. Did you design it that way ?
IMO - they should not be there - but should be in the root of the application directory.
OTOH - if you have your app in the system32 directory - *THAT* , in itself, again IMO - is a bad thing.

regards [Bill]