>> When I issue screen.visible = .F. from my startup program, I get an error
>> in a seemingly unrelated place in my main form's init event "unknown object
>> blah blah..." On top of this, the login screen never shows up, and
>> EVERYTHING disappears, even from the list that appears when pressing
>> ctrl+alt+del. Restarting windows gives my "Are you sure you want to exit
>> the program?" messagebox displayed from the application's shutdown, but
>> this is the only hint left of my application running. MS articles say that
>> '_screen.visible = .F.' should be issued at the very beginning of the main
>> program.., but this has never worked for me- what I am I doing wrong?
>
>I'm curious:
>
>Why do you want to hide the running FoxPro application? To prevent it's
>startup from being visible? My guess is that you would want to have the
>_screen line at the very top of your startup program and then, just
>before it calls the first form, have _screen.visible = .t..
>
>Why are you displaying Forms in a hidden application?

I only want to hide the Visual Foxpro main window... not my Application's window. My .exe uses its own form as the desktop form, not the VFP window. My main motivation for this is preventing 2 buttons from appearing at the Windows command bar.