Hi everyone, A few months ago, I created a simple program in visual basic. The program consists only of an edit field, a check box, and two buttons. When activating one of the buttons it formats the string based on some hard coded conditions. That's all there is to it, no other files, no installation necessary, just run it and do your thing. I created the program partially as practice, partially to help with certain challenges on a text based multi user game I play. So anyway, here's the problem. The program runs fine for my roommate and I, and several others. But one particular person can't use it. When she attempts to run the program, she gets a message that says the program failed to initialize. She's using windows XP like the rest of us, and i have no idea what the problem could be, wehter it's in my code, her computer, or what? I thought perhaps it has something to do with her not having the .net framework, but I thought that case with windows XP automatically? Any suggestions or ideas? Christy