Hi Elyse.

>Some of my users have complained that while watching the progress bar during an update of a data set, the computer seems to stop unless the mouse is moved.

Do you have the latest version of SDT (5.1g)? It resolves this issue using some code I originally saw Dave Frankenbach post: it "wiggles" the mouse in code so DOEVENTS processes faster. Hopefully, this is something MS will fix in a future release of VFP.

Doug