I sounds like your timer events are building up in a queue. Try setting the timers off when you are doing some heavy duty processing.

--Paul

>Hello All,
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>I am currently working on an application that makes use of timers MaxFrame base class) to execute "background" tasks while the system is idle. This works perfectly until the timers have been operating for over 4 or 5 hours. At this point they seem to fire continually. The timer that is the worst offender is set on a 2 second interval.
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>Any suggestions on what I should try ? I will be experimenting with the problem but each test takes 4 or 5 hours, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks in advance,
>Bruce.