I'm new in VB - I hope someone out there has the answer for me. In Visual Foxpro the form has a property named lockscreen where if set to 'TRUE' the form batches all changes to property settings for its contained objects and when all changes have been made, you would reset lockscreen to 'FALSE' and all changes pop up at once, rather than a slow form paint. There must be something similiar in VB or the API. Any help would be appreciated.