It will work but the screen will flash up initially which looks messy. If it's run on a slow PC that flash can linger.

>Would this work ?
>
>thisform.ShowWindow = 2
>_screen.visible = .F.
>
>which doesn't involve modifying config.fpw.
>
>PS. I'm a beginner to this too, if it won't work can you let me know why, thanks