It may also be a video driver issue.

>After experimenting on additional computers, the problem seems to be isolated to one machine, _even_ when that machine is running a remote session on another machine and the VFP app is being run inside that remote session. (It was this behavior that initially made me think it was a VFP-centric problem). So this makes me think that there is some GUI event that is uniquely occurring on the problematic machine (maybe relating to mouse/pointer?), and also that this event/message is being propagated to the remote session.
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>Is there a tool that can track all Windows messages/events for a snapshot period and give a human-readable readout of what they are? Or some other way to track down what might be happening?
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>>>It seems that with VFP8 (which I'm still using, and thus it's only VFP8 that I can speak for), suddenly native VFP tooltips only display for about 1 second or less, then disappear. I cannot find anything that would have changed things except for the occasional Automatic Updates from Microsoft.
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>>>Any idea what could be going on? Tooltips in other apps seems to work OK. Our VFP apps still seem to work fine, it's just a misbehaving tooltip issue. This happens even when I simply use the devel environment to create a simple form with a single button with a tooltip (i.e., no VFP timers going off in the background, etc).
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>>Hi Mark,
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>>Do you have any tools/utilities that loads when VFP starts?
>>You can launch VFP with -A command-line switch and see if it fixes the problem. If it does than something that loads on VFP start up screws the tooltips.