Sorry, to interrupt this interesting discussion. You know I have modal forms in topform, and I even start one modal form (login) from top-form activate event. It always worked Ok, and I did not suspect any problems. Needless to say, that I did not touch Desktop properties.

>Hi Bruce ---
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>Yes I have. That's what I've been doing for the last hour. Seems that the problem does indeed revolve around the Desktop setting in VFP6 with all the service packs installed. I'm running Win95.
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>>Have you tried screen = off in config, and removing the _screen.hide? and maybe setting focus to something on top-level before launching modal?