Assuming by your description, the program resides on a network share. Have you checked if there is a difference between launching application through a shortcut vs navigating to the location where the EXE resides (using Windows Explorer) then launching the application from there? Does this behavior seem to only happen for the first few times you first try to access the network folder (i.e. once you're able to launch the application, all subsequent tries work without problem) ? I'd seen an occasional problem at some customer locations where network connections weren't fully "up" -- they sort'a work and sort'a don't -- but once you're able to browse the contents of that shared folder, everything seems to work OK.

>Hi Victor. Thanks for your reply
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>I checked into this further and following happening:
>1. Switch on the PC
>2. Comes up with an error (Looking to open a DBC and some files etc that its trying to open
>3. Message says 'Cannot Locate file K:\MYfolder\XYZ.dbf
>4A. After rebooting about 5 times ...all is ok
>4B. if I go in on the same PC and try to just USE the file ...no problem (First Time Round)
>4C. Probelm is happening on .EXE (Tried anoither .EXE and same thing)
>4D. If I load the .EXE into another folder (Which has a different but similar set of files) , its ok
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>So it looks to me as if its an .Exe in combination with the Folder Or Mapped Drive issue
>Very strange .......
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>Regards,
>Gerard
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>>>Hi.
>>>In a site , this problem has suddenly appeared
>>>When an .EXE (VFP9) is run, it takes about 5 mins doing nothing (Seems to be doing notjhing anyway)
>>>After about 5 retries (Taskmanager Kill the session) , it gets in and works fine
>>>There are 10 PC's on the network(Windoes Server 2008) and the other 9 PC's are fine
>>>I think I have ruled out Anti-Virus as I have got them to Unisiatll it and same problem
>>>Not a new Pc (Have it about a year) and runs Windows 7
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>>>Any Help apprecaited
>>>Tia
>>>Gerard
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>>Maybe anti-virus software causing this?? If your workstations are scanning network drives it can cause odd things like this to happen.