>Naomi,
>
>Well at the moment it is temporarily using AVG free antivirus on the desktop with FortiClient at the network level.
>Soon I will be under FortiClient on the desktop too.
>
>I don't think the problem was viral.
>The problem started showing signs after some memory failures last fall.
>VFP started hanging a few times per week since then and finally newly compiled apps quit running.
>
>I received several answers suggesting that I need to put in a "read events" statement.
>I do not know how that works or how to use it.
>But I have a lot of apps running here through VFP 6, 7 and 9 and none of them have a "read events" in there anywhere that I know of.
>Do you think I am missing something important?
>
>Regards,
>Bob

You can start reading from this blog http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk/hints-and-tips/foxflash.html in regards to Read Events. You probably always had modal first form that's why you didn't need READ EVENTS.