... create a folder in a known place to contain your files. There will be quite a few of them. I much prefer to do this rather than rely on the default Windows behaviour of using virtual folders from which it is always a pain to find what you are looking for. You will need to access the folder directly, because in there will be the final executable program file. I created a folder called C:\DEREK_TRIAL\ for this example program. This is what you will see when you run Lazarus: 2_201613_280000000.png Lazarus (and Delphi) scatter themselves across the screen in 5 basic windows. Each one can be moved around and re-sized in the usual way, to suit yourself. 1. is the main command window. Closing this closes Lazarus. Minimizing this minimizes everything. 2. is the window representing the program which you are creating. This is where you drag and drop the buttons and boxes which make up your program. The dots are a grid to which they can be aligned for a neater result. The ...