>George - thanks for the prompt reply.
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>I don't think I made myself clear - the Foxpro form is being minimised not the app being RUN
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>Regards
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Anna,

There are two possibilities that come to mind. The first, but highly unlikely in my mind, is that the executable being call minimizes the form. The second, would be that the logical variable being assigned has an assign method that would fire when its value changes. If it did, perhaps the code within that method is setting the WindowState to minimized (1). These are the only two possibilities that come to mind. I've never seen this sort of behavior in VFP or any of its predecessors.