Jim,

I can't get VFP into the same state, I've always got a minimize/restore/close button set on the child MDI windows. I've tried it with VFP in it's normal maximized state and while running in non maximized state.

What if you try this when you have the error state in the command window:

_vfp.Top = - ( sysmetric(12) + 2 )
_vfp.Left = - ( sysmetric(12) + 2 )
_vfp.Width = sysmetric(1) + 2 * ( sysmetric(12) + 2 )
_vfp.Height = sysmetric(2) + 2 * ( sysmetric(12) + 2 )

This should restore VFP to it's normal maximized state. If you have SET RESOURCE ON and close VFP it should restore make to this state when you restart.

If this doesn't help maybe you can take a screen shot that you can post for us to look at.

>Yeah, that's the problem... It's in the VFP IDE area. The window maximized and the menubar was beyond that area in the IDE. In the previous versions of VFP if the form gets maximized there are two menubars, with the three options. That is not my case in VFP8. Am I making sense?