I know there's a way to dump all the settings, but I can't remember it. Please remind me.

>I;ve no idea. Here're my VFP9 settings. See if you can find something different from yours that could explain it

SET TALK OFF
>SET NOTIFY ON
>SET CLOCK OFF
>SET COMPATIBLE OFF
>SET PALETTE ON
>SET BELL ON
>SET BELL TO '', 1
>SET SAFETY OFF
>SET ESCAPE ON
>SET LOGERRORS ON
>SET KEYCOMP TO WINDOWS
>SET CARRY OFF
>SET CONFIRM OFF
>SET BROWSEIMECONTROL OFF
>SET STRICTDATE TO 0
>SET EXACT OFF
>SET NEAR OFF
>SET ANSI OFF
>SET LOCK OFF
>SET EXCLUSIVE OFF
>SET MULTILOCKS ON
>SET HEADINGS ON
>SET DELETED ON
>SET OPTIMIZE ON
>SET UNIQUE OFF
>SET CPDIALOG ON
>SET REFRESH TO 0,5.000
>SET ODOMETER TO 100
>SET BLOCKSIZE TO 64
>SET REPROCESS TO 0
>SET COLLATE TO ""
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\SCCTEXT.PRG" TO _SCCTEXT
>SET HELP ON
>SET HELP COLLECTION
>SET HELP TO "c:\program files\microsoft visual foxpro 9\dv_foxhelp.chm"
>&& ResourceTo = h:\my folders\vfp9\foxuser.dbf
>SET RESOURCE ON
>SET RESOURCE TO "h:\my folders\vfp9\foxuser.dbf"
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\WIZARD.APP" TO _WIZARD
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\BUILDER.APP" TO _BUILDER
>STORE "" TO _MENUDESIGNER
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\CONVERT.APP" TO _CONVERTER
>STORE "Q:\DEV\VFP\TOOLS\GENMENUX.FXP" TO _GENMENU
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\BROWSER.APP" TO _BROWSER
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\GALLERY.APP" TO _GALLERY
>STORE "" TO _INCLUDE
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\BEAUTIFY.APP" TO _BEAUTIFY
>STORE "" TO _GETEXPR
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\GENHTML.PRG" TO _GENHTML
>STORE "Q:\DEV\VFP\TOOLS\VFPSTART9.FXP" TO _STARTUP
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\SAMPLES\" TO _SAMPLES
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\COVERAGE.APP" TO _COVERAGE
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\TASKLIST.APP" TO _TASKLIST
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\OBJECTBROWSER.APP" TO _OBJECTBROWSER
>STORE "H:\MY FOLDERS\VFP9\FOXCODE.DBF" TO _FOXCODE
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\FOXCODE.APP" TO _CODESENSE
>STORE "H:\MY FOLDERS\VFP9\FOXTASK.DBF" TO _FOXTASK
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\VFPXTAB.PRG" TO _GENXTAB
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\FOXREF.APP" TO _FOXREF
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\TOOLBOX.APP" TO _TOOLBOX
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\TASKPANE.APP" TO _TASKPANE
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\REPORTBUILDER.APP" TO _REPORTBUILDER
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\REPORTPREVIEW.APP" TO _REPORTPREVIEW
>STORE "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 9\REPORTOUTPUT.APP" TO _REPORTOUTPUT
>SET SYSFORMATS OFF
>SET SECONDS ON
>SET CENTURY ON
>&& CurrSymbol = $
>SET CURRENCY LEFT
>SET CURRENCY TO "$"
>SET HOURS TO 24
>SET DATE TO AMERICAN
>SET DECIMALS TO 2
>SET FDOW TO 1
>SET FWEEK TO 1
>SET MARK TO ""
>SET SEPARATOR TO ","
>SET POINT TO "."
>

>
>>Care to suggest what might be different between you and me?
>>
>>>Hi Mike,
>>>
>>>I run your code in VFP9 and VFP8SP1 and progress bar is displayed regardless if the Command window is hidden or not.
>>>