Jim

>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?

On a Pentium II with 128 MB Ram - takes about 5s (longer where only have 64 MB).
On a Pentium III with 256 MB - takes 1s or less !

Unfortunately - my client won't supply all his Users with new machines <g>

Anna