The GetDateFormat Windows API function formats a date as a date string for a Locale Identifier specified. The formatting is controlled either by flags or by the formatting string, if provided. The function accepts SYSTEMTIME Structure as one of its parameters.

MS security bulletin MS08-070 - Vulnerabilities in ActiveX Controls Could Allow Remote Code Execution (932349)

lists MS products affected including VFP 8.0 and VFP 9.0

MS security bulletin MS08-052 - Vulnerabilities in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (954593) lists many MS products affected including VFP 8.0 and VFP 9.0

Either of below will disable Task Pane Manager launch on VFP startup:

In Enumerating printer forms article the DeviceCapabilities

function is used to mark print forms supported by particular printer. It can be used to retrieve other printer capabilities as well.

The GetKeyState

function retrieves the status of the specified virtual key.

VFP 9.0 version information for service packs and hotfixes.

Based on How To Add Custom Table to the Clipboard to be Pasted into Word

An ActiveX installation on PC can be verified by finding its ProgID from OleClass property in the registry.

To distribute applications that use reports with custom paper size you have to create custom printer forms on every destination PC that runs Windows 2000 or later. The MS KB article Q157172

explains how it can be done manually. However there's a way to do that programmatically using Windows API.