Sounds like the old "As top level form" problem.

If your form is set to run in the VFP window (default) and the config.fpw says screen=off or code says Application.Visible = .F. then you dont see the main form.

The other one is not having a Read Events!

Check both.
>Aha! A hidden mystery fact.
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>Anyway, I guess it depends some on how things got installed. If the vfp runtime files are in the same directory as the other app's exe, for instance, I think it will run fine without having them registered, but this app won't know about them. First thing I'd do is to check the location of the runtimes.
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>Alan
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>>But a third, larger VFP application works fine. And if VFP is installed, so are the runtimes, aren't they?
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>>>If it runs from within vfp but not alone, then it sounds a bit like maybe the vfp runtimes are not installed or registered properly.
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>>>Alan
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>>>>I have 2 small VFP7 applications that run perfectly well from a desktop icon for 99% of our clients. For one client, the apps run from within VFP but nothing happens when run from the icon. It seems to be skipping over the call to run the form and nothing shows up. I tried running the systems from the server which is running WIndows 2000 Terminal. Any ideas?
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>>>>Thanks,Elyse