Thank you Anatoliy.
A great solution!

>Here's a quick and dirty solution: Start button is located and button click is emulated by sending left mouse button down and up messages.
>

>#DEFINE WM_LBUTTONDOWN 0x201
>#DEFINE WM_LBUTTONUP 0x0202
>
>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN user32;
>	STRING lpClassName, STRING lpWindowName
>
>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindowEx IN user32;
>	INTEGER hwndParent, INTEGER hwndChildAfter,;
>	STRING lpszClass, STRING @lpszWindow
>
>DECLARE INTEGER SendMessage IN user32;
>	INTEGER hWindow, INTEGER Msg,;
>	INTEGER wParam, INTEGER lParam
>
>LOCAL hTray, hStart
>hTray = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", Null)
>hStart = FindWindowEx(hTray, 0, "button", NULL)
>
>= SendMessage(hStart, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 0, 0)
>DOEVENTS
>= SendMessage(hStart, WM_LBUTTONUP, 0, 0)
>

>VFP window keeps capturing keyboard events. Need to find HWND for the popup window (Windows Start Menu) and activate it.
>
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