here are the results. the first line after the program line is the time it took to run from within vfp8.0 (ie issuing "do p_main" in the command window). then i uncommented the "read events" line, rebuilt the app, and ran my application from the desktop. The 2nd times listed is the results from running the app from the desktop icon.

zoom window screen maz
0.00000000
0.30000000
open database d_tasks
0.00000000
0.11000000
use view_tasklist in 0
0.15000000
0.80100000
use view_memolist in 0
0.12000000
1.05200000
use \\linux\project\patient alias patient in 0
0.57100000
0.22000000
do menu1.mpr
0.01000000
0.23100000


As you can see, the view_memolist line is almost 10x slower in my app (1.052) vs when run from within vfp8.0. The view_tasklist also is much slower, but not 10x.

Any ideas what could be happening here? BTW, thanks for the program. That will come in handy in the future as well for diagnostics.

Paul