Al,

Thanks for the reply...

>If there is any AV product running on the server, try disabling it.

I think the client's network guy did try this, but I'll ask again.

>How is the speed of opening and saving Word and Excel documents that are tored on the server? I ask because W2K and XP Pro seem to be sensitive to DNS configuration when set up as members of a W2K domain.

I'll have to check with the client tomorrow about this.

Any thoughts about why form instantiation would be slow but data queries and file copies ok?