>More info:
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>1. Tried the changes of the file locking as suggested. Things got worse.

You mean the change to the SharingViolationRetries? I tried it here and everything has gotten snappier. Bear in mind you can not test the difference if 2 users are on before the change, and then 5 after the change.

>2. Server has 2G of ram.
>3. Server is used for this application only.
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>Presently checking into the sys(2023) function to determine the temp file locations. It should be local...
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>Any more ideas on how to speed up VFP?

Do you have a local dbc and local exe? Network traffic will be higher them on the server.