>I have 3 different connection strings that need to be used based and where we are on the network or disconnected laptop. I have been making three seperate exe's to date and would like to have 1 and use a confi file to help me determine which connection runs.

Since you are using VFP8, you can conditionally pass a connection string to SQLSTRINGCONNECT() to get a connection handle. Then, pass the connection handle to the CONNSTRING clause of the USE command.