Thanks, Vlad. I just copied my VFP6 config to new directory, because I wanted my startup program to execute... I don't need SCREEN=OFF anyway...

>Hi!
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>I strongly suspect that Screen=Off option is for run-time only. Why use it for design time for VFP development environment?
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>In VFP8 you can forget about config.fpw, BTW. There is a new SYS(602) function for this. You can check at app startup if you run in dev environment or not, and dependent on this use "off" or not.
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>HTH.
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>>I've run it to no avail. Command window doesn't appear. Moreover, if I change config to have screen=on, command window appears. If I change it to screen=off, it disappears and could not be activated.
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>>I doubt, it's by design.
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>>I don't have VFP7 at all, only VFP6 and VFP8 Beta. May be this is the key difference...