>True, but that's a Windows thing...not VFP.

Well, you know me.< s > Actually, this behavior can be important. If you design an app, you can exclude those items that are in the EXE, thus making the app smaller than otherwise would be the case. The downside is that you're tied to dynamic linking which can result in additional overhead. Way back when (Fox 2.x) however, I found that this additional overhead wasn't a big deal.