>Bob,
>
>It has nothing to do with the Gateway machine, it's the processor speed that's at fault. Start with this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q171/0/47.asp
>
>There is a third party utility that slows down the machine enough till the code can be ported to VFP where the problem doesn't exist. Here's a link to it http://www.vss-inc.com/slowstart.html

Thanks for the help. Now that's some impetus to move to VFP!

Bob

BTW, I could not get to http://www.vss-inc.com/slowstart.html either.