Hi Michael,

Set the ShowWindow property of the form to 2 i.e. As Top-Level-Form and leave the settings in the Config.fpw as they are. You will not need _screen.Visible=.T. in this case

>Greetings!
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>I know there's probably been lots of questions about preventing the display of the background (default) FoxPro screen in an .EXE, but I must ask!
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>Apparently, the procedure is to put "SCREEN=OFF" in the CONFIG.FPW file and then "_SCREEN.Visible=.T." somewhere in the code. However, I still get a SCREEN on my system, which behaves worse than if I did not attempt to disable it.
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>Ideally, I would want JUST the form to display (like VB), without having another screen around it. Is there a proven technique for doing this? I am using VFP5.
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>Thank you!
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>Michael Reynolds