>How can I prevent the task panel manager from appearing ?
Click on the Taskpane's Options, Select Task Pane Manager in the treeview and uncheck
Open the Task Pane when Visual FoxPro starts or
in the RegEdit goto the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\9.0\Options key and blank out Data for Value Name '_STARTUP'.
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