>Hi,
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>In a very small executable I want to let the user choose an app. Then the app, containing a form, will be executed. The app is chosen with the help of GETFILE(). In that phase I don't want the main vfp-window, so I put SCREEN=OFF in the config.fpw. However, this also prevents the visibility of Getfile().
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>Any other solution?

Peter,
I'm not 100% certain but can't you size and position the screen off the desktop then make it visible? something like

with _screen.
 .top= -100
 .left = -100
 .height = 10
 .width = 10
 .visible = .T.
endwith