John,
One of the enhancements in VFP7 is to respect the setting of SET NOTIFY. Prior to VFP7, you could do something like this:

MyCompile("COMPILE *.prg")

PROCEDURE MyCompile
LPARAMETERS tcCompile

DECLARE INTEGER GetDesktopWindow IN WIN32API
DECLARE INTEGER LockWindowUpdate IN WIN32API INTEGER lnHandle

LockWindowUpdate(GetDeskTopWindow())

&tcCompile

LockWindowUpdate(0)

HTH
>Hi,
> How to COMPILE a PRG without showing compiling thermometer?
> I did SET TALK OFF , SET NOTIFY OFF, but it still appear... any ideas??
>
>Thank you