John,

Are you loading all of MSDN or just VFP help? foxhelp.chm help for me starts in under 2 seconds after hitting F1 on a lowly P2-300 class machine. If I want to get to the full MSDN help I get to it from the VS menu.

>Sounds like we have something in common. I also have printed out the sections of the HTML Help file that I commonly access and taped them to the wall of my office. I like to avoid the s-l-o-w load time of help.