>My problem is that evreytime I start VFP 7.0 I can do anything I want inside the command window, but once I go outside the window and lose focus ( like going to the toolbar ) it locks up and I have to use the task manager to abort.

That sounds pretty nasty. Are any windows docked in teh VFP Windows? Try right clicking on the command window and turning dockable off. Does that have any effect? You can turn it off with code to, run this: =WDOCKABLE('command', 0)