>Once declared there isn't any point in redeclaring them, and besides I hate wasting CPU cycles even if it doesn't take many of them.

Sometimes it can't be helped and as much as I hate wasting CPU cycles, I hate trying to chase down where and why the CLEAR DLLS command was issued in a project.< s >

>>I thought you might know more than I about the overhead, if any, of redeclaring API calls. I've always felt that if there was any, it was insignificant.