>David:
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>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.
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I have no problems with dual processors running NT 4.0 and VFP 6.0.

>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.
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As David said, VFP is singlethreaded.