Alright Mark, got your email and decided to answer here. I think I've mentioned before that even though you use this as a launcher it still loads up Toms if this system type is set to VP. It's hard code if your system is named Visual Pinball. You could tell if "vpauto.exe" is running. So, even though you have commented out functions to close VP, vpauto.exe is maybe overriding that. I haven't noticed any conflicts myself with it and no slow loading, but glad you finally got it sorted.