Hi Peter

>>... it's just the OS, and re-activating the task brings up the memory again ? Strange that you didn't notice that before (actually, I don't believe you on this ...

I have always noticed the memory decrease when minimizing a vfp app. That was another point to my original increasing memory query. I was just wondering how I might use the memory free up when minimizing an app to solve my increasing memory usage on the dll :) This just became two topics of discussion rather than one. But still interesting!

Thanks

Jos