thanks Al.
i tried it again in a separate program in isolation simply to see the effect of the window and you are right no shadow window.

however in the original program - the command following the activate window is a browse and i'm wondering here if the browse opens up a spearate window with the same window properties underneath the first window.

in answer to your question i can actually move both windows. miniimize vfp and restore secondary window still there - there is no duplication of the command activate window temp1

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>>I have created a window temp1 with float property - when i go to move it, there is another duplicate window underneath the one that opened up.
>>is there a property i need to add so the window is not duplicated or does this comes with the float property.
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>>DEFINE WINDOW temp1 FONT 'Geneva',11 STYLE 'n' FROM 10,1 TO 33,180 close TITLE 'mywindow' float grow
>SHOW WINDOW temp1
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>If I SHOW WINDOW as above from the Command window, I see your window. I can drag it around, there is only one window.
>
>Are you sure you have a secondary window? Can you click on it, drag it around, and close it separately from the other one? If you minimize VFP, then restore it, do you still have the second window?
>
>If not, maybe it's a video artifact, in which case you could check that your video drivers are exactly correct for your adapter, and up-to-date.