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Thanks for the info folks. CobaltSky, I'll look up your post. The link has died. Thanks again, Gary

Dan, I've run Developer 5.0 on XP Home and XP Pro with no difficulties. Have not tested extensively but no noted problems. Filemaker will say nothing about 5.0 and they appear to have no desire to do any testing due to the successive "Ugrades" (tongue in cheek) Gary

Posted this on the FMP board and no response. There appears to be two menu altering plug-ins on the market. (1) Menu Control 1.5 by Dacons and (2) the new version of SecureFM 6 by New Millennium. Has anyone tried either?..both?... and your opinion please. Gary

There appears to be two menu altering plug-ins on the market. (1) Menu Control by Dacons and (2) the new version of SecureFM by New Millennium. Has anyone tried either?..both?... and your opinion please. Gary

The runtimes I created in Developer 5.0 also work fine under XP Home and Pro. Also work well on Win 95, 98, ME, NT4 and Win 2000. I started with a clean O/S install and added FMP5.0 and Developer 5.0 Gary

I have been using MYOB Plus Accounting for the PC for the past eight years. It's full featured, powerful, quick, very easy to set up and extremely intuitive. In fact, I have used the on-line help only 4 or 5 times in the past couple years. Their sister program for the Mac is called MYOB AccountEdge. If it is anything like the PC version, you can't help but like the program Also have a free trial download. http://www.myob.com/us/products/accountedge/ Gary

Michele, The opening script, defined in the preferences, will execute whether the file is opened manually or opened by another file. How would you prefer the opening script to execute? i.e. What would be ideal in your situation? Gary

Art R. I have been using FMP 5 and my FMP 5 run time solutions on both Win XP Home and Professional in single user for about six weeks. Have yet to encounter any problems in either OS with v 5. I have only worked in single user. Can't comment on network environments. Hope this provides some peace of mind. Gary

Michele, Are you on a Mac or a PC platform? If on a PC platform, there must be two files on your computer (independent of the runtime files) for the runtime to work. Otherwise, the runtime will attempt to open and just quit. The necessary files are Microsoft files that are normally supplied with Internet Explorer 4.0 or above. They are SHFOLDER.dll and COMCTL32.dll There is an article in the FMI knowledgebase regarding these although I do not have the address handy. If on a PC platform, try searching your machine for these files. As for your second question, I must apoligize, but do not understand your question. Gary

Ken, To elaborate on OAM's #4 The "additional restrictions and requirements" are basic and clearly spelled out in the Developer Manual (There's not much clearly spelled out in this manual, but these items are). They are not complex... for example you are reqired to list FMI as a copyright holder on a screen (but doesn't specify how large the font must be). If you desire FMI not to unlock the solution at the request (and payment) of a solution user (because you password protected your solution and the user wants to get into it), then you must list some specific terminology on a screen specified by FMI. This screen tells FMI that you, the developer, have limited the user's access to only the password protected privileges that you assigned solution users. Nothing difficult. After fulfilling these requirements, you have unlimited distribution rights of your "Runtime" without any royalty payments to FMI. As Steve mentioned, these rights come with the Developer edition and are spelled out in the License. To create a Runtime solution (your solution runs on the user's computer without him having an actual copy of FMP) you utilize a program that comes with Developer, but not with FMP. With this "Binding Program' you create a "Runtime" version of your solution by specifying your solution "File Name", plus whether you want the solution to run in "Kiosk" mode, any custom file extension you want and a couple other choices that you're offered. After making the selections, you tell the program where to place the files, click the "Finish" button and it does it's thing. That's it. It is not difficult but does require some experimenting to learn how the various selections (that you made during the bind) affect the solution. Also many, if not most, third party Plug-ins work with the Runtime as well as FMP. Kiosks present their own set of potential problems. Steve has seen and resolved most of them. HTH Gary

Dale, The only way to get close to what you want to do is by using the plug-in Steve suggested Gary

Ron, This may have nothing to do with your problem, but files copied from a CD are Read Only and it may be necessary to remove the Read Only attribute once they are on the Hard Drive. Posssibly worth a try?? Gary Hopps

Installed a runtime solution on Win 95, Win 98 and ME. It worked fine. The same install on an NT4 w/SP3 and Win 2000 machines resulted in a dialog when the Runtime .exe was clicked. "XXX.exe is not a valid Win32 application" and the app will not run. Installation was with Setup Factory 5.0.1.4 Any thoughts?? Gary

Neville, Re: DAT backup; You might want to take a look at IOMEGA's new "Peerless" External Removable Hard Drive (USB); Comes in 10gb ($360 USD includes 1 disk) or the 20gb ($400 USD with 1 disk). Extra disks are 10gb ($160 USD) and 20gb ($200 USD) They are advertising transfer rates of up to 15MB/sec (approx 1gb/min). Sounds like a good bet for doing backups. Sounds like an Adv. but I'm not associated with Iomega and don't sell computer equipment. Gary

Nobunny, Troi has a "Files" plugin for a rather reasonable price. One of the many fnctions sets a default filepath which may be of help in your situation. They have a free 30 day evaluation (read full) version you can download at http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html You might want to look at it. Gary