>Thanks Bill - I kinda worked out a solution by moving the code out of the load event and popping it into a timer - when the timer fires I can call clear events then thisform.release... Thanks for your help

No problem. Glad you found your solution. I am kind of curious as to how and why you are using the Timer in this situation. Unless I'm missing something it seems you should be able to accomplish this task w/o a Timer?!?

Bill