>Thanks, Rick. That's worth a lot. Would VFP actually lose the events from an ActiveX (or Windows) or would it just queue them up and they hit all at once when it "wakes up"?

I'm not 100% sure actually, but I'm guessing that it won't queue. VFP will be dead in the water while waiting - nothing happens hence there's no way to queue the incoming events. The way events work in Windows is that they're sent and forgotten. If they're not picked up they're gone. Normally VFP's event loop queues them but the event loop won't be running.

Try to make sure this is accurate though.