>>>It turns out the modals are completely innocent, it's only the popup that's causing the problem. The last lines of the popup are
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>>>Activate Popup mypop
>>>Clear Popups
>>>
>>>Must need something else there...
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>>Are you sure about the CLEAR POPUPS, my shorcut menu doesn't have that. And the menus work OK if the form that's brought up with the shortcut menu isn't modal.
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>Are you testing in a full-fledged TL/MPR/EXE environment?
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>Anyway, thanks, removing CLEAR POPUPS does the trick. I forget why I added it, it was needed back in vfp5 to fix some problem. Now, I wish I'd documented why I added it...I know there was a reason...(scratching head)

Glad it cured your problem. Now I just wonder what I've done to make it happen, because I can't stop it from disabling the menus!