>This is a tough one. Don't have a lot of information, but we have two forms that for one client (and only one client) open very slowly the first time during a session. Usually, after they have been opened, they will open fast subsequent times. This installation has been running great for over a year, but suddenly we have this problem. Their network guy made some changes to their server, changed the IP address, etc. and that is when the problems seemed to start. Of course, he says that it is our application, not anything he did. Proving it one way or another is proving very difficult. I can't find anything that would cause this slowdown in the application yet. We'ver tried disabling Norton, but that didn't seem to make a difference. We are thinking of having them put everything on a clean server box and see if that helps. Anyone have anthing they can think of that we could look at or try? We are about a day away from losing this client.

Total shot in the dark, but has the memory been checked on that machine? If some of it has gone bad and the machine is running with little memory, it would start slowly (and then be OK) like that. The network change could be just a coincidence.

Another thing to try is running the app on a different machine. That will tell you whether it is something with the current machine or a more general problem.