>hmmm, I do that a lot ( crash VFP :) ), well not a lot but enough times to be annoyed by it, and if TALK was all I lost it wouldn't be that much, but it's a bunch of little things, like position of the command window, toolbars, and those things you like to have where you like to have them. Anyway all you have to do is set your preferences in the options window and hit set as default, and ,of course, activating the resource file. After all is not really that important but my a/c is not working right and I just feel like wynning (Is that sepelled correctly)

One thing that comes to my mind is to make a clean version of foxuser.dbf/fpt, cleaned out of unnecessary things (like positions of last year's editing windows), and back it up. After a few crashes, if it becomes obvious that the current foxuser is dirty, just restore and enjoy.