>I have noticed that after upgrading to Vfp8 that when the program launches, it doesn't have focus like it did in Vfp5. I can force the form to have focus with the setforegroundwindow API call, but is there a method or function in Vfp I'm missing to start forms with focus?

This appears to be a known BUG. I have seen posts about this on other forums and have had the same problem.

For me using an API to solve a BUG is not the way to go.