>>>I never thought to try that. If I could would that indicate something?
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>>Well, if this would be the case, then somehow the application is still running minimized and we need to force it to be maximized or bring it to the front.
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>>Also is it possible that you initiated multiple instances of the application?
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>I am positive about only once instance of the app running. Is this a vista issue as other XP systems run this app perfect. What I did was install VFP onto the Vista and ran the app from within the vfp environment, this worked, but not too professional.

We were trying to figure out, if in Vista your application is minimized or not properly brought to the front. Did you try to find the application and restore it without running from within VFP IDE?