>Our forms do NOT have anything running while hidden. I have
>further tested this issue and your suggestion by opening the
>main form and only ONE form beyond this main form.
>By remaining in the second form, I simply have to rebuild the
>data that populates a grid 30 times for the \windows\win386.swp
>file to enlarge and finally our exe comes to a crawl.

Hmm. How are you rebuilding the data?