Very odd. I took out the _Screen.Caption = "blah" and still had the problem. Since there was a problem with the menu not responding, I simply added the following line and now it works even with _Screen.Caption = 'blah':

SET SYSMENU TO DEFAULT

>That's odd. I guess there is something else going on but I have not idea what could it be. Sounds like a good exercise for the user group meeting next week :)
>
>Are you sure there is nothing else in your START.PRG that is causing this problem?
>
>
>>Same thing with _VFP and _SCREEN. If I assign a value to the
>>caption using either one the menu dropdowns from VFP no longer work...
>>
>>>Have you tried _screen.caption = "blah blah" ?
>>>
>>>>I have a program assigned to the COMMAND = statement in the last line of my config.fpw file as follows:
>>>>
>>>>COMMAND = DO start.prg
>>>>
>>>>in the start.prg file I have this statement
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>_VFP.Caption = "Label goes here"
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>If I use the _VFP.Caption then my VFP menu no longer works. What am I doing wrong?
>>>>All I want to do is show the name of the project I am working on using _VFP.Caption.