>Jim
>
>> Another thought that occurred to me was that if the project was created
>using some sort of framework, there may be >a bunch of classes and such that
>are not particularly needed for what is essentially a one form app. I know
>that I did >mine this way and got a whole class library including a
>cApplication object that gets instantiated etc...
>>
>
>Thanks for the thought - this has happened to me in the past also - but not
>with this partic app. It's a very flat object model already.
>
>Regards
>
>Anna


In that case, it sounds like it is probably as fast as it is going to get, and you MAY need to move to another environment in order to increase instantiation speed. It just seems to me that this should be plenty quick already. How long does it take to pop up the main form?