I sounds like your startup program does not call a form and does not have a menu so there is nothing for it to do. You need to do some major reading of tutorial type material that will help you understand how foxpro is working. Try making a main form modal by setting the property on the form (windowtype i think) and in your main program call this form. That will get you started. But you need a menu and eventually you will want to close that form and open another without shutting down your application.