Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the reply. Itried your code snippet below but it did not work for me.
If my understanding is correct, you are passing _scree.caption as a parameter. My VFP screen is coming to the foreground, but does not receive focus:
do BringToTop with _screen.caption




>This is a new feature on Win2000. Apps do not automatically get focus when they start. I have added the following to my apps that need to run on Win2000.
>
>*********************** In start up code
>app_title = 'My Great App'
>lcSaveCaption = _SCREEN.Caption
>_SCREEN.Caption = app_title
>
>DO BringToTop WITH app_title
>
>
>********************************************************
>PROCEDURE BringToTop
>PARAMETERS tcAppName
>
>*** The following code is required to bring the app to the top
>*** and give it focus in Windows 2000
>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32API STRING, STRING
>DECLARE SHORT SetWindowPos IN USER32 ;
> INTEGER hWnd, ;
> INTEGER hWndInsertAfter, ;
> INTEGER x, ;
> INTEGER y, ;
> INTEGER cx, ;
> INTEGER cy, ;
> INTEGER uFlags
>#DEFINE HWND_TOPMOST_WINDOW -1
>#DEFINE SWP_NOMOVE 2
>#DEFINE SWP_NOSIZE 1
>#DEFINE SWP_SHOWWINDOW 0x40
>#DEFINE SWP_BRINGTOTOP SWP_NOSIZE + SWP_NOMOVE + SWP_SHOWWINDOW
>hWnd = FindWindow(0, tcAppName)
>=SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST_WINDOW, 0,0,0,0, SWP_BRINGTOTOP)
>_SCREEN.AlwaysOnTop = .T.
>_SCREEN.AutoCenter = .T.
>_SCREEN.Visible = .T.
>_SCREEN.Show()
>_SCREEN.AlwaysOnTop = .F.
>
>RETURN