>Ok, just to be sure I made my explanations clear.
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>I don't have any problem showing the splash screen while everything is loading. I just say that nothing can appear before the run time loading is finish and this may take 3 to 5 seconds. If we can call a C program from the icon level which will fire a graphic and then call an EXE, this will be shown instantly and before the run time load time.

SET KLUDGE ON (S)

You could always make a quick VC exe that will fire a splash screen,load your VFP exe and then quit.... (rbg)

SET KLUDGE OFF

Scot.