>Hi John,
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> One of my colleagues implied wait window nowait techique. After switching to statusbar there was a tremendeus speed advantage. So, I may suggest to use status bar instead of wait windows nowait...
>
>>Pretty new card. Shouldn't be too bad. I think that is probably the issue though.

Nadya and Joe,
Thanks for the help. After more checking I found that the problem is the same on my computer, my laptop and a customer's new Dell computer. The Dell is even worse becuase it is the fastest of them all. It seems that VFP is only refreshing the screen when it feels like it. I am wondering if there is any other way to force screen updates.