Nope...that would make life to simple. The app does use a top-level form for the splash screen, but there is an option the users can setup to skip it, which is what's happening here. The machine that it's happening on is a laptop with Windows2000 RC2 loaded on it, and I'm beginning to wonder if that is part of the problem. The plan is to have an app that has one screen with a few buttons on it that launch several other apps. Even if you launch mine from this 'shell' app it still starts behind that too. Of course none of the other apps that run from this shell seem to have this behavior....so that kinda blows my Win2000 theroy, and my mind. I've even tried putting a _Screen.Show() in my main.prg just for grins...same problem. ???anyone???

>>I have a user that runs my application from the windows explorer. When they double click on the .exe icon, the app starts up ok, however it starts behind the explorer window. Of course I can't duplicate this behavior from my machine (This would make life to easy).
>>Anyone have any idea what in the world could be causing this?
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>I've seen this with a top-level and AlwaysonBottom set to .T., don't know if that applies to you...