Dale,

I have experienced the same type of lockups that you have described. However, I am running on Win95 on an IBM ThinkPad with 160MB of RAM and using Outlook 97. I too have quit trying to use my mail program while doing development. I never had this problem with VFP5 and have seen it consistently in VFP6. I have forwarded complaints but it is very disappointing to the responses from Microsoft (Randy Brown hope your getting this!). I am running the development tool 12-20 hours a day and losing about 40-60 minutes a day waiting for reboots and Scandisk to run. It is extremely frustrating. I have seen times when getting around the lockup with a CTRL+ALT+DEL and getting the task manager up to see the MSGSVR.EXE (Not Responding). I also would sometimes get an "OE" Error in the Blue Screen. If I could get back up then it would then lose my LAN conection. Dial up connections stay connected so I believe it is a conflict on the network drivers and such. I have TCP/IP, NetBEUI and IPX/SPX drivers going. My biggest concern is the FATAL EXCEPTION ERROR C00000005 error that keeps occuring at my PC and at clients running my commercial or custom apps in VFP6. Randy Brown mentioned installing DCOM98. But I thought that was for those people that didn't have IE4 installed on their PC. I have IE4 and some of my clients have IE4 and still get the FATAL EXCEPTION C00000005 error. I believe this has to do with the new Error Handling that Calvin mentioned at DEVCON in Orlando. I have been studying this problem since I got VFP6 in August in VS6 and have been greatly frustrated telling clients I am researching the problem as fast as possible. One note though after installing the SR1 of VS6 and then uploading all of the latest DLL files to my clients PC's the FATAL EXCEPTION errors were greatly reduced but are still occuring at a very random time. I even wrote a method to quickly check all of the required DLL's dates and times to verify any potential problems when my apps run. I have also noticed timing issue changes in the GRID control which caused me to rewrite some of my apps methods as well. I use very involved grid controls and believe that this is still related somewhat to the GRID control problems that have been there since VFP3. Do you use a lot of deeply involved GRID controls in your Apps? I mean like using multiple controls in the GRID or resizing the GRID on the fly and such and hiding and displaying columns in the GRID on the fly? VFP6 is quite an awesome product if we can get it cleaned up. I have been using Fox since 1986. Like to hear more of your problems to see if we can find even more patterns to send to Microsoft to check out. I wrote to MS and offered to sit with the team for a few months to go through all of the issues with them and get the product cleaned up. VFP6 is still the most powerful database tool on the planet!