unfortunetly in VFP3 you cannot supress the VFP desktop completely using VFP alone what you can do is make it invisible after your first line of code fires - as you did VFP5 solves this problem with the SCREEN=OFF option for the config.fpw Arnon >Every time I run my executable, a Visual FoxPro screen with some menu items appears for about 1 second. > >I have the following in my startup program - > >_SCREEN.Visible = .F. >_SCREEN.Caption = "My Great New Visual FoxPro Program" >_SCREEN.WindowState = 2 && Maximized (enlarged to fill the screen) >_SCREEN.Icon = "MY_ICON.ICO" > >I would appreciate any suggestions.