>That was it! It was a couple drive mappings to other computers that were off! Even though those drive letters were not used by VFP they were dramatically slowing down the EXE launch.
Glad you found it. I'd seen that happen a few times in the past so I thought I'd throw it out there. The interaction of mapped drives, the Windows/MS-DOS PATH, and the VFP PATH is a weird and wonderful thing ...
Regards. Al
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