>When we make shortcuts to VFP prg's on Windows XP and then edit the program from the shortcut in Windows 2K our PRG's get deleted, has anyone come across this bug and know what the fix is?

I'm not sure how launching shortcut could delete prg. Can you elaborate on this one?

> Also the shortcuts made in XP do not show their full paths in 2K? They use ~ and a shortened file name convention for some reason.

It was discussed recently in the Re: Unexplained behavior of shortcuts Thread #966754. The only workaroud so far is to recreate shortcuts under Win2K.