I dunno what I did , but now it works if I say:

SET NOTIFY off
SET NOTIFY CURSOR off
SET TALK off

Thanks!

>Is a virus scanner actively scanning the DB on the client workstation?
>
>>Hi All:
>>
>>Consider the following code:
>>
>>

>>FUNCTION y2k(tcFieldName)
>>
>>LOCAL ldDate
>>
>>i = 0
>>
>>SCAN
>>	i = i + 1
>>	IF MOD(i,1000) = 0
>>		WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT 'Y2K: Now processing record ' + ALLTRIM(STR(RECNO())) + ' of ' + ALLTRIM(STR(RECCOUNT()))
>>	ENDIF
>>
>>	IF EMPTY(&tcFieldName)
>>	ELSE
>>		ldDate = &tcFieldName
>>		lcYear2 = SUBSTR(ALLTRIM(STR(YEAR(ldDate))),3,2)
>>		IF lcYear2 < '80'
>>			ldDate = DATE(2000 + VAL(lcYear2),MONTH(ldDate),DAY(ldDate))
>>		ELSE
>>			ldDate = DATE(1900 + VAL(lcYear2),MONTH(ldDate),DAY(ldDate))
>>		ENDIF
>>	ENDIF
>>
>>	REPLACE &tcFieldName WITH ldDate
>>
>>ENDSCAN
>>
>>RETURN .T.
>>
>>

>>
>>In VFP on my machine running Windows 7 it runs fine. On my client's machine running an EXE file in Vista, it takes FOREVER.
>>
>>One thing I noticed is the I get a message in the status bar with EXE every time there is a replace. Why don't I get it in VFP?
>>
>>In VFP it make no difference if NOTIFY CURSOR or NOTIFY is on or off!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Yossi