>I set my options to use foxhelp.chm (as described in the readme file) but it still gives me the same slow interface and only gives me VFP help if I choose the first menu item under help. Otherwise, it reverts back to the Visual Studio help with all those damned greyed out items from VB,VC++ and everything else under the Microsoft sun.

Yep, that's _really_ annoying. If you choose to display the FoxPro subset, what is the point of all those greyed out entries? Is that supposed to show you how much more help you'd get if you were using VC++? :)

>The only acceptable answer to this sluggy response time I can see is to leave the bloody thing open during my entire VFP session.

I agree, and that's what I do. But in a multitasking environment, that's reasonable. I have quite a few programs that are "always open."