Hi Randy,

I don't know about addressing the speed problem itself, but one thing you could do is to use a "loader" application (covered in another current thread) which could display the splash screen for you before starting the vfp app loading process.

Alex


>Does anybody know how I can get my VFP EXEs to start faster? Here is my problem. When I double-click on the application icon on my desktop it almost looks like nothing is happening. My mouse pointer stays an arrow (not an hourglass like I would expect) and there is hardly any disk activity until the app comes up a few seconds later. This causes many users to click on the icon again and then get two instances of the application running at once.
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>Is there anyway I can get a splash screen or get the cursor to turn to an hourglass almost instantly like it does when I run VFP?
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>The computers are mostly 400mhz, 64mb ram and the program is being ran from a local drive. I am using VFP 6 SP 4. This ia also a VERY small app (54k) conisting of one main form and SCREEN=OFF in config.fpw file.
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>Randy