I'm a little confused as to which 'splash screen' you mean. Can you tell me what this spash screen looks like?

>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?
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>Furthermore, I don't understand how to enter command line options into my shortcut which invokes VFP in XP.
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>>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
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