Thanks for all your feedback which is valuable to me. I have lot of forms with tabs and the slowest I think should be as Craig said. Presently I'm only testing on local harddisk of 686 120Mhz with 32 MB RAM, the speed is unacceptable. Does breaking the EXE to smaller EXEs helps to increase the speed? If this does help, that means I have to create a main form EXE calling all the other modules EXE. When I click the main form button, I would like the EXE and its' child forms in its own Window (SDI?). Where should I change to create this behaviour ?

Thanks again.

>>Hi all
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>>In general, what sort of hardware config. do you recommend your customers to have to run VFP app.? I have tried running my app. in Pentium 100 Mhz and 16MB RAM and I find perfomance is bad. Just like to get you all general opinion on this.
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>>Thanks.
>Pentium 100 - 150 with 16MB has been adequate for most of our clients. The main area we have had a performance satisfaction problem has been with forms which contain a large number of controls which have taken upwards of 30 seconds to load on a Pentium 100.
>Usually in these cases there were multiple pages on a pageframe containing a lot of text boxes, combos, lists etc.
>The recommended way to reduce the load time in this situation seemed to be to only instantiate the controls on the first page of the pageframe at load time and create the rest as each page is selected. This spreads the load out and keeps the users happier.
>Normally though, we recommend a minimum 150 MHz Pentium with 16MB ram.
>Hope this helps.