Also, when the app starts you can check for another instance of the same app and prevent it from loading in this case. There is something for it in the Files section and UT FAQ as far as I remember

>Hi Randy,
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>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.
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>Alex
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>>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