>All my forms are showing the little vfp fox head in the upper left hand corner. Is there a way to remove this and/or can it be replaced by some default icon without having to load an icon on every single form?

Create a 'baseclass' form with the ICON property you want ... say 'myicon.ico'
Then each form you create from then on should be a subclass of this form.
Then by default the icon for each of these forms will be 'myicon.ico'

HTH