>Hi All,
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>I have 2 EXEs in the same folder. I start one which communicates over the internet to a back-end server to retrieve data. The other exe displays that data. They both use the same set of VFP9 dll files.
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>If the program that does the internet comms gets hung up waiting for some comms issue then its title bar can show the usual "Not responding" suffix. Thats ok. The problem is that this affects the second exe file which also becomes unresponsive. Why? Is it because they share the same set of VFP dll files? Would making each exe use its own set of VFP dll files resolve this?
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>Thanks

You really have 3 processes here (2 .EXE, 1 .DLL). So it certainly sounds like the .DLL process is hung up, taking both of the .EXEs along with it.