>>>>David, can you add the menus to the form while the form visible property is .f.. Then change to .t. when the menus have been added?
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>>>The menu is the _msysmenu in the main(_screen) window. Is it easy to move menus to the form(s) itself?
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>>Hi David. DEFINE MENU IN WINDOW WindowName... Just a thought though - are you not trying to solve the wrong problem in that perhaps its just easier to upgrade the pc rather than develop a whole workaround for what is apparently an old and slow pc.
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>We have 300 users on many different Pcs !! :-)
>Still - putting the menu in the form would certainly save a lot a redrawing when they are flicking from screen to screen. Do you know if toolbars can be "in" a form?

You can check out the ShowWindow property of the the Toolbar object to see if you can restrict a toolbar within your window. Not sure as I havent created toolbars in this fashion. Mine are all free floating / dockable within the main application window.

I also think from the info given that Al's suggestion of a master menu is perhaps the easiet solution.