My recollection, AND the way I do it is as follows

TALK=OFF
TITLE=SIMPLE CONFIG

Notice no spaces in there between and = and anything else. I seem to remember that being a requirement.

>David, Thanks for your response.
>
>I did exactly as you said and created a new config.fpw file with only the two following lines of code.
>
>TALK = OFF
>TITLE = SIMPLE CONFIG
>
>Some very interesting things happened.
>
>1st. The TALK = OFF generate the error "variable OFF not found".
> I ignored that (clicked the ignore button)
>
>2nd. Then I get a syntax error on the TITLE = SIMPLE CONFIG line of code.
> I ignored that (clicked the ignore button)
>
>3rd. Even though I got the syntax error on the last (second) line of code,
> The title in the main VFP window was indeed "SIMPLE CONFIG" before it
> got to that that line of code. Wierd???
>
>4th. Even though the first line of code generated an error, Talk was OFF.
> However this is probably the default setting. This at least is encouraging.
> leading me to believe my original config.fpw file may be corrupted.
>
>BTW, I can't find any documentation telling me that "SET TALK OFF" is out and "TALK = OFF" is in.
>I'm coming from FP DOS 2.6 into VFP6.0 and realize that I'm at the bottom of the learning curve again,
>So there may be some changes here that are not documented.
>
>What next??
>
>Thanks agian
>Bennett