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Either of below will disable Task Pane Manager launch on VFP startup:

• Click on the Task Pane's Options, Select Task Pane Manager in the treeview and uncheck Open the Task Pane when Visual FoxPro starts
• In the RegEdit goto the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\9.0\Options key and blank out Data for Value Name _STARTUP.
• Add _STARTUP= to a config.fpw. Only VFP instance that uses this config.fpw will be affected.