>Machine is 2.6G with 256MRam and 33G HD space available, running xp2. What is happening is this:
>
>VFP7 application originally installed in a win98 environment. Ran fine..
>Now in the above machine, this is what happens:
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> If the user has just started the machine up in the morning, everything runs fine - good speed, etc. But, later in the day, she might have outlook open, word open, maybe excel, and then she runs the application..
>
>Instead of a 6 second load, it can take up to a minute... Trying to access a table for viewing can take 40 seconds or more, closing the application down can take a minute. Yet if this is the first application run after startup it performs well.
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>Even if she closes all other applications and only runs the vfp one, it is still slow. It only runs at an acceptable speed when the machine first starts up.
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>Temporary files are located on the users hard drive.
>
>This is unacceptable.
>
>
>Any ideas on what is causing the slowdown?
>
>Mike

Update. I misread your specifications, I somehow read 2GB. 256MB is way too little. And update to VFP9 anyway! :-)

-You have too much RAM for VFP7. Upgrade to VFP9, and prepare for looking at a much happier face in the mirror! :-)

-NB! See SYS(3050) in help.