>It's a tad on the large size. Take a run out to www.ntfaq.com and read up on swap file allocation and performance - there's a lot there.

Okay, shall do. All this stuff ran fine in 9x, now I feel like I'm in Kindergarten with NTWS...I suspect doubling the RAM would help a lot, though, the NT machine really seems to be struggling with 64.

>Yes, it gives preference to the forground task as far as the frequency and duration of the time slices it's given. You've selected the option to make your main WinApp get preference.

So, Max is good if the vfp app is all that's running - I'll leave it be for now. Do you always keep it Max for all activities?