I don't want this, I was only explaining how. In fact I do the same as you. The one thing I wish I could do though is to change the message to something more specific than 'Running Query...' For now I use WAIT WINDOWs to inform the user what's happening.

>It is interesting to hear the request to turn off the progress bars during the SQL select -- my customers like them, since they are not totally random, but appear after ( 1000 milliseconds or so into the select ). What I did is the inverse of what you want:
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>Set talk on
>Select...
>Set talk off
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>I have read the thread so far, but this has worked consistantly for me ( VFP 6.0 ).