>Hello everybody, I'm a new user in this great forum. I'm from Honduras so my English is not so good
>but I'll try to explain my problem as good as I can.
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>I've developed a system for the Finance Department of CAREde Honduras, where I work.
>This system is finished, I did'nt have problems while programming. But now I'm installing the system in the users's computer and the machine becomes very slow even when is a Pentium 120Mhz with 16 MB in RAM.
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>Also when user is working in Excel or Word (he doesn't even have the Foxpro System open), the computer
>display the following error :
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>"Vfp300
>This program has perform an illegal operation
>and will be shutdown.
>If the problem persist, contact the program vendor."
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>I know this message appears very often in some Windows's Applications, but as you can see in the
>Windows title appears Vfp300.
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>This message also appears when I want to shut down my computer, so I have double shut down.
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>I'm using Visual Foxpro version 3.0b, in Windows 95.
>Can anybody help me, please.?
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>Thank you very much
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>Error presenta las siguientes complicaciones al estar utilizando Windows’95:
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>n La maquina procesa muy lentamente
>n Este no solo es presentado cuando se ejecuta el sistema desarrollado en VFP, sino también cuando se quiere comenzar una nueva sesión en Word o en Excel.
>n Al querer dar Shut Down antes de que aparezca la pantalla de finalización de Windows, para que el usuario pueda apagar la maquina, aparece nuevamente, lo que hay que presionar nuevamente Shut-Down.
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>Nos urge saber cuan complicado es el problema, ya que el sistema desarrollado esta en periodo de prueba y debe instalarce muy pronto en otras maquinas, lo que tememos que dañe también estas otras o que se complique el problema a medida avance el tiempo de utilización.

For the speed issue, check the CONTROL PANEL->SYSTEM->PERFORMANCE tab. It should say "Your system is optimized for maximum performance". If is says that a drive is using 'DOS Compatibility Mode', then you either 1) have a very old hard drive, 2) have an improper controller setting or 3) need an updated driver (this is normally the case for a hard-drive (> 235 MB (?), for example I had this problem, until I installed "Disk Manager" by Ontrack). DOS Compatibility mode will greatly affect performance.

For memory problems, VFP 3.0x gave me and a lot of other people many memory exceptions/lockups. VFP 5.0a has fixed most of those. Try to run system with no CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT if you can to test (Rename the files to CONFIG.XXX and AUTOEXEC.XXX for example....DO NOT DELETE them). When Windows starts up press CTRL+ALT+DELE (ONE TIME ONLY) to bring up a window showing currently open files. You should have only "Explorer" showing, unless you have anti-virus or other TSRs. If so try disabling then from loading to see if they are causing the problems.

Hope this helps! //:^)
Larry

(P.S. Suerte!)