It's worth a try, anyway. BTW, have you tried to USE your form exclusive, and pack it? (Remember to make a backup first, just in case.)

>That ain't it in my case ... I don't use the DE (never have).
>
>>>On many of my forms, MODI FORM is slow -- excruciatingly so (at times, 15 seconds before I can do anything).
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>>>Is this something unique to me and my environment, just VFP 9, related in some way to the favorites tab (I've got a lot of things there), or something else?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
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>>If you have many files in the DE, you can spped things up by having the files already open. On my machine, I have a copy of my forms in a temp directory. I open two sessions of VFP, in the first I Do Form temp\myform, and minimize it. This means all tables are open, and when I Modi Form myform in session 2, all tables are already open.