>Do you hard code pathing inside your code? Do you say do form d:\blah\somefolder\yourscreen.scx in the code in your production exe? If so, vfp is attempting to look there for the form. Inside your exe, your code does not need such pathing. You can also use sys(2450,1) to force it to look in the exe first. You only need a path to the form at design time during design-time testing in the IDE. At runtime, you only need a path to the data folder and possibly image folders. I open all tables at app start. Subsequent USEs inside private data session forms and also subsequent SQL queries benefit. That is because they basically do a USE AGAIN which is fast on an already open table.

Thanks, Mike. No, I don't specify path inside programs. Everything's in one exe (around 13MB total). There's only one PATH statement in config.fpw (made sure it's all valid), and that's it. And yes, I leave most frequently accessed tables USEd at run-time.