>Hey, so you found a fix, good. It sounds like caching, but so what - if it works, it works, and we will not argue with a working solution!

Well, more an explanation than a fix, although I'll probably use it when I know I need to test something and I need to go in and out of design mode for a particular form repeatedly...
As Thomas guessed, it is not the form, but the files in the DE. If they are open in any other VFP (or FPW) on the machine, then there is no delay in opening the form in design mode.

I still find it strange, the complete lack of interest for this issue from vfp team members. I discovered this almost by chance, I can't believe they did not know the explanation - if they did not, maybe they can put it on their work to do list.

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>Probably not related at all, but just as a comparison to your problem, I found 2 very distinct differences when I went to Win2K Server and WinXP local last year, up from NT4 Server/WorkStation (and some 98SE):
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>1) If a net printer is not warmed up now, printing from any app (especially Outlook) causes not only a long print-message delay, and a very long time to print, but some click events in different apps do not fire at all while print jobs are still active, even after the print message closes. On NT4/98/95/NT Server printing was always very smooth. This on the exact same machines with only different OS, this huge print difference happens. We have given up on a solution, except to keep the printers warm :-)

Same here with the delay, didn't notice the click, maybe they happen... - and then you wonder why the global warming, los niños and las niñas ;)

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>2) Oppositely, net file copies are just incredibly fast under Win2K server/WinXP local. Like the file copies are maybe *5 times faster* than under NT4Server/NT4WS/98 OS. A 20MB file copy from server-to-server is now instantaneous, it's almost unbelievable it's so fast. Again, exact same machines.


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>Just examples of some other weird behaviors, probably mostly just due to some certain configurations in my network environment, somewhat like maybe you are having.

Thanks for all.