>Thanks Craig....another related question: sometimes after installing a VFP app at client sites I notice that some text boxes background colours have their own background colors which I presume are user-defined Display settings; can VFP re-set these to a default setting on launching the application (and return them to the user setting on quitting)?


There are properties that you can set to use your own colors in VFP. Don't mess with changing the colors in Windows, your users will quickly hate your application. Windows guidelines say that users should have control over colors. If you leave the color settings at their default values in VFP, the users preferences will be picked up.