>Where would I remove the flash screen? Somewhere inside MYFORM or back in the menu.click method? You hide the splash screen, wouldn't I want to release it to remove it from memory? Thanks for your clarification.

I'd say you've got two options, to either create it and destroy it all in the form, or around the form. If you created the splash in the form, it would probbaly be in the Load() event (I would set AutoOpenTables to .F. in the DE and call DE.OpenTables() from the load), then release it as teh last thing in the Init().

If you were to do it the other way, it would depend on if the form was modal or not. If it was modeless you coudld just do something like:

DO FORM Splash
DO FORM MyForm
Splash.Release()

If its a modal form, you could try:

DO FORM Splash
DO FORM MyForm NOSHOW
Splash.Release()
MyForm.Show()