>I'm having similar problems. I get the 0x0000005 access violation regularly, usually when doing something visual.
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>I can even cause a non-random crash: open many tables and relations. Open the data session window. Drag the relation thumb down. Presto, VFP crashes.
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>I tried downloading the latest S3 driver to no avail. I also tried reinstalling VFP and the VS sp.
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>I use NT 4.0 sp3 and VFP 5.0a with the latest VS sp on a compaq presario 4770 with 32MB RAM.
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>Does anyone have a solution?
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>Thanks,
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>-Hans

Hans,

I don't have a specific solution, but vis-a-vis your "random" crashes, I suggest you use the UT search engine and look for terms like "access violation" or "crash". There have been a number of threads, and the consensus seems to be that this type of error results from either a video driver or a printer driver using VFP's memory space.

While I have not yet solved my client's problem, the comments on UT were helpful in formulating a strategy.

Steve