SET TALK OFF
SET CURSOR NOFITY OFF

See also some minor changes I've done in the code.

>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
>                   luFieldVal = evaluate(tcFieldName)
>	IF EMPTY(m.luFieldVal)
>	ELSE
>		ldDate = luFieldVal
>		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