>It's late on a Friday evening and I'm tired (not as tired as my brain!). How do you prevent the VFP screen from flashing up when you issue CLEAR EVENTS, RELEASE FORM to close a top-level form? I know this one is easy but I just can't remember!

_SCREEN.Visible = .F.

or in VFP 5.0 put SCREEN = OFF in your CONFIG.FPW file.