>>I have found VFP timers to be unreliable when left to run in perpetuity. Instead I call my .exe from the windows scheduler every few minutes and my .exe itself shuts down after completing its checks.
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>>Also, instead of a timer you could just induce a delay between loops by calling the Windows API Sleep .
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>Also, I think we have cpptimer.fll, do you think it's worth trying to use that instead of the VFP timer?

Sorry, I don't have any experience with cpptimer.fll