You should move your "special" code to the Init of the form and return .F. in case you don't want form to be instantiated.

>Hello Everybody
>At init of my form i do:
>DEACTIVATE MENU _MSYSMENU
>at unload of my form i do:
>ACTIVATE MENU _MSYSMENU NOWAIT
>Everything works as expected !!!
>
>Now i put some code into the form activate to immediately close the form under under special circumstances.
>if .....
> messagebox(.......)
> thisform.release
>endif
>
>release run into the unload section but the __MSYSMENU is not activated ????
>
>What do i miss ???
>Any help welcomed
>
>Best regards
>Albert