[snipped] >IMHO, system tray is out of (or should be out of) VFP reach. You can write VFP interface >consisiting of one visible button (icon,label,etc) and then do whatever you want from >button.rightclick. Ed, Just curious. Why do you think that the system tray should be out of VFP's reach? I too have a desire to write database "utilities" that are constant background processes which seems to be the nature of applications that run out of the system tray. Why should that process have to be written in something besides VFP?