>How can I avoid the users access the start bar in WIN95 or NT while they are working in a VFP EXE.

It isn't always the greatest idea to hide that window, but assuming your aware of this, the following code will hide / show the task bar, be advised even with the window 'hidden' users can still activate the START menu by pressing ctrl + esc, maybe someone else can explain how to hide or disable that:

DECLARE Integer FindWindow in WIN32API;
STRING @lpBuffer,;
STRING lpctstr
ihwind = FindWindow('Shell_traywnd','')

#DEFINE SHOWWINDOW 64
#DEFINE HIDEWINDOW 128

DECLARE Integer SetWindowPos IN USER32.DLL;
INTEGER hwnd,;
INTEGER hWndInsertAfer,;
INTEGER x,;
INTEGER y,;
INTEGER cx,;
INTEGER cy,;
INTEGER wFlags
? SetWindowPos(ihwind,0,0,0,0,0,SHOWWINDOW)

Hope that helps
Robert Horkay