>in VFP's Help We can find :
>"If you use the LOCATE command without the FOR expression, Visual FoxPro
>positions the record pointer at the first logical record. This is faster
>than using GO TOP when a filter is in use or when DELETED is ON."
>
>For my curiosity, I wanted to know how much faster LOCATE is, but I got the opposite !
>Is the information provided by MS wrong , or did I make the test incorectly ???

Locate and filters set with gotop are slow. SEEK is fast. I usually loop through the scope after a seek. But you might be able to seek first and then scope it with set filter.