>I have made a splash screen without any caption and no min, max, etc. buttons and as Desktop, Top level form but when I run the form, though it show no title bar in the design view the title bar crops up when the form is run.

Is this form based on a class that tries to add an icon or caption or something like that? I've never seen where the form doesn't show the title bar in the designer but does when it was run.

BTW, if this is VFP6, you can just set the TitleBar property to off instead of messing around with the other things.