>I have a table of about 15000 records (12 mb). Under FP 2.6 I could pack this table in about 15 seconds.
> Under VFP 6.0 (with sp 3) and talk turned on, the copy portion happens in under 5 seconds then it takes 2 to 3
>minutes, minimum to get control of VFP again. It appears to freeze and I can hear disk activity during the wait. What's
>going on here and how do I fix it.

Some possibilities could be:

1) Badly fragmented hard drive
2) Windows memory paging (thrashing) to disk and back
3) Many index tags being rebuilt (do you have more indexes than 2.6 version)
4) Are you packing memo field(s) also?