>
>I don't know either (as you're only 'pretty sure'), BUT I would hope that, at least since VFP 5, that VFP would load everything on startup and leave the paging totally with the OS and the SWAP file.
>
>In addition, considering a WIN9x environment and the cost of RAM, I don't really feel that worrying about a "lighter memory footprint" is that productive, and I would worry about other things long before making this an issue.
>


It actually might be an issue since I need to have this program loaded all the time. Another VFP program is also going to be loaded (almost) all the time. This same machine may also have 1 or 2 other VFP programs running at various times. The memory requirements of each might get pretty hefty, and anything I can do to minimize it will help. The app is pretty simple, and I think could just as easily be done in VB (although I rarely use VB, so it might take me a little longer to get it working than in VFP).