Sergey --

That works fine for starting VFP, and I thank you.

However, this doesn't help with the FXP that I invoke in scheduled tasks each hour. Any ideas on that one?

>>For the case in which I'm interested, I'm not invoking VFP directly. I have an hourly scheduled task which runs an FXP of mine. So, I don't understand how I would set that up.
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>>Furthermore, I don't understand how to enter command line options into my shortcut which invokes VFP in XP.
>
>In the shortcut Properties Target feeld add ' -T' (w/o quotes) after

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9.exe"
>so it becomes
>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9.exe" -T
>