>Unfortunately, adding a window and setting talk on would output irrelevant information to said window. I had a tip printed in Foxpro Advisor long ago to suppress such output.
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>Your post said nothing about altering the title, which is why your suggestion as stated would not have helped.
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>Furthermore, the query progress bar only appears when the query is big enough to warrant it. Your window would have to be visible for the title to show and it would appear even when the query progress bar doesn't. Which, while it would permit me to augment the message, would look awful.

That's true. We didn't try to alter this message for our queries, so we just use set talk on without using window. When running queries with join on multiple tables we have to wait several seconds (quite noticable delay) before this thermometer appears. Unfortunately, we can not control it. We can stop query execution by hitting ESC only if this thermometer appears.

BTW, I didn't read this article in FoxPro Advisor. Do you have a link available or can just briefly give the idea of suppressing such output?

Thanks in advance.