>>>>Thanks! that works great, the only problem I have now is when I run the program (executable), the program goes to the bottom of all of my programs instead of being on top. any ideas?
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>>>Not sure what you mean.
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>>say I have Outlook running and a the folder that contains my program. I double click the exe and the program loads, but it is underneath Outlook and my folder. So I have to alt-tab to it even though I just switched to it.
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>Not how to fix this. Try posting this as a new question so that others can spot it.

Try using

declare long SetForegroundWindow in "user32" long hWnd

SetForeGroundWindow(some_hDC)

You'll have to find out how to get the vfp hDC from windows - I've only ever used getDeskTopWindow() when VFP is active, but I'm sure you can search here for the answer (it might be FindWindow() or some such, unless VFP holds a pointer somewhere).