>>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?

And what version are you using?