Hi George,
Granted, I'm using SQL Server 7.0 on my Win2K box, but I don't think the Console winodw is displaying a menu. The "menu" is actually a non-iconized toolbar. You can see this by drilling deeper under the Console window using Spy++. The toolbar buttons might be creating popups, but they are not true menus.

Regards.

>Walter,
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>I think that there are really two things going on as to why you can't do this.
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>First, I think the problem in understanding may be due to perhaps some understated documentation. The Window's Platform SDK does state that the window may not be a child window. If you look at the properties (via Spy++) of the Console Root window in the SQL Server Enterprise Manager, you can see that it's clearly WS_CHILDWINDOW, yet it has it has a menu as does the Manager. Looking at the Extended Styles, it also has WS_EX_MDICHILD. This may be the reason why it can display a menu. This is a guess.
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>Unfortunately, VFP does not (at least in 8.0) create any windows with this extended style. You might want to try a test by setting the MDIForm property to true. Even with this property set this way, the extended style above is not utilized.