Hi Evan,

All my tables are being opened when the app first starts. I use Visual Maxframe Professional and it does this by default.

>Hi Paul.
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>Another option is to open all of your tables when you start the app. Then when forms access the tables in a private datasession they don't reload the data. Some have said that VFP does an implicit "use again"
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>>I have noticed that my form's instantiation speed is determined by the size of the files in the data environment.
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>>I have a form that has a table with 350,000 records and another table with about 200,000 records. When I issue the do form it takes 15 seconds for the form to load. If I zap these tables then it takes about 4 seconds.
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>>What is happening here? Is there some setting I can set to speed this up. I don't think my customer's are going to find this acceptable.
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>>Thanks,
>>Paul