that suggestion did it. I ended up with this code. I found that setting it back to "normal" worked better (depends on the user I guess, I tried capturing the value of WindowState before and setting back to that but it did not seem to matter).

      STORE .ioServer.Application.WindowState TO lnOldState  && note: old state not really used yet but keeping for testing

      STORE 2 TO .ioServer.Application.WindowState  && i.e. minimized; note: maximized is 1 if needed
      STORE 0 TO .ioServer.Application.WindowState  && i.e. normal

>>>UPDATE. Found it eventually (in Russian):
>>>
>>>http://forum.foxclub.ru/read.php?29,557209,557261#msg-557261
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>Do you mean you tried what is suggested at the bottom of this link http://forum.foxclub.ru/read.php?32,177182,258927#msg-258927 and it didn't work for you?