>>>I'd like to get my splash screen to appear without the little blip I get when I set _screen.visible = .F. at the top of main.prg. Application.visible property won't work because the _screen has already been exposed by the time the app is created. I'm not sure about the event sequence when main is executed...
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>>I am away from my computer with VFP on it. Putting SCREEN=OFF (check the syntax, it could be SET SCREEN OFF) in the config.fpw file should prevent the screen from displaying. This only works for VFP5 or higher.
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>But be aware of a problem with this. By putting SCREEN=OFF in the Config.FPW file, you unleash a VFP bug. Unless IE4.0 is installed on the machine, you will get a Fatal error on exit from your program.

Which versions of VFP is this bug relevant for?