David:

With the help of Dell, I finally got to the root of the problem. It seems like VFP6 has a problem with dual processors. I used the task manager to turn off the second processor and voila! all problems have dissapeared.

Since I know that VFP is multi-threaded and should not have this problem, they suggested I reinstall Visual Studio from the ground up and see if it fares better. Otherwise, Microsoft will be hearing from me.

John


>John,
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>Kind of a wild guess, I've not seen anyone report this problem. What happens if you turn down the video acceleration on the machine?
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>>I don't know what to make of this problem. I recently purchased a Dell Precision 420 workstation. It has dual 733's and all SCSI drives. I moved all my development projects over, installed Visual Foxpro 6, SP3, and now get sporadic problems with my projects.
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>>When I open a project and modify a menu, sometimes several of the menu pads seem to dissapear! There is blanks where the text used to be. I also get "Report File is Invalid" errors when opening reports. If I keep trying, they open correctly along with the menus.
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>>Does anybody have similar problems out there?