Matt,

Why would you want to lock the desktop window anyway? You really only want to lock the VFP window. In VFP7 you could use the _vfp.hWnd property. In earlier versions you can use a function from foxtools to get the hwnd of the VFP window.

>This classic trick below doesn't seem to work on our new computers running Win XP Pro. I t worked fine on Win NT 4.
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>Am I missing something?
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>Of course, I want to hide the "Printing page x..." window that pops up. I found this code on UT a long time ago, and it was working fine. It does'nt give any errors, it just does not hide the window like it used to.
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>DECLARE INTEGER GetDesktopWindow IN WIN32API
>DECLARE INTEGER LockWindowUpdate IN WIN32API INTEGER lnHandle
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>hWin = GetDeskTopWindow()
>LockWindowUpdate(hWin)
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>*report form ...*
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>LockWindowUpdate(0)