Thanks to all for the suggestions.

I am going to try each of the suggestions ONE at a time to see if it goes away
Will post as results become available.

I am really keen on the one about animated cursors because I stopped using animated cursors on my home machine (PII 266) because the cursor would just disappear at times (Intellimouse). I DO have an animated cursor on my P90 at the office.

I have not tried actually starting with a completely new project and will do this. Only one question though - The only hangs I ever have are during a project rebuild. If I corrupted it during the first hang and it now hangs because it is corrupt, what caused the first hang?

I have not tried CLOSE ALL but I have tried CLEAR ALL by itself and no change.

I will definitely try throwing my old foxuser.dbf away.

My P90 WAS one with the bad math coprocessor but I got a fixed chip from Intel during their warranty program.