>>>>>I have a VFP9 report that seems to run in about 1 minute on my Windows 7 machines, but takes about 20 minutes on my XP machines. . Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this???
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>>>>>Thanks!
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>>>>where are exe, report files, cursor/table feeding the report ? (Or is server in Win7 case higher than 2003?)
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>>>The exe is on the workstations - reports compiled into it. Using SQL passthough and remote views via ODBC to an Oracle database running on server that is older than 2003.
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>>Antivirus?
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>>Slow network connection e.g. wireless?
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>The Windows 7 machines are on the same network (not wireless) and are running the same anti-virus software - so i don't think that's it either.
>I did notice that the report had a default printer set, so I've removed that - hopefully that will turn out to be the problem. I will also check the machines and make sure that their temp directories are local.

Speaking of directories, I understand if there are non-existent folders in the VFP PATH, that can introduce long delays under certain circumstances. Maybe such folders exist on the fast computers, but don't on the slow ones.