Command window opens then disappears

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Or is it off the edge of the screen somehow? For years when I would open VFP9, the Command window would to often appear with only its title visible in the very bottom right hand corner, but even when I dock the task bar elsewhere, no Command window appears to have been hiding behind it. I'm getting old, so prone to forget things, but didn't it use to be possible to just type in the name of a program in that box to run it?

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I've been told one way to fix it might be to run 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9\vfp9.exe /REGSERVER' from the text box that comes up when you click the 'Start' Windows icon at the left hand corner of the screen, but that seems not to work. And I no longer have the original DVD (or CD?) anyway. Maybe that's true if it was installed from a DVD on drive E back when this computer still had a DVD player, which it no longer does since I had to have it removed for there to be a slot for a second hard drive. And I've been unable to repair it via the option in the Control Panel since it tells me it cannot reach Drive E, where it claims it was installed from.

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I've tried Ctrl-F2, which is supposed to turn it on/off, but no luck. After VFP 9 has been working for years on this Win 7 computer, now suddenly the Command Window has disappeared.