>>>People are already running 32 bit VFP on 64 bit processors and seeing big improvements.
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>>True - but then it's that the overall speed of my new motherboard is greater. And my OS is still 32 bit.
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>>The most palpable speed gain I got after switching was from stopping unnecessary services, and defragmenting weekly.
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>Dragan, how did you go about determining which of the services installed were unnnecessary? I am sure many are unnecessary in my machine, but am afraid of breaking something by deleting them. I am especially concerned with what lives inside all those svchost.exe the show up in Windows Task Manager.
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>TIA,
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>Alex

Following Jos suggested list, you can disable many of them via the Services panel.