Check for nonexistent directories in the SET PATH setting.
I also suggest that you run Martina's enhanced Coverage Profiler which you find in the download section. With this tool you can see which lines of codes are slow. We had a similar problem which we had lived with for quite some times. Thanks to CVP we found that it was a hard coded IP address which was not in use anymore.
>Hi Craig,
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>Thanks for your help.
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>I temporarily disabled AV (Microsoft Security Essentials) and switched file caching off on the local drive but there is no noticeable change in performance.
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>The file caching is an interesting lead though, there may be something similar running - that's definitely something to go on.
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>Thanks again for your advice.
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>Regards,
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>Ben
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>>Two things I'd look at:
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>>- Anti virus - Exclude any folder VFP is using.
>>- File caching on the local drive. Turn it off.