Thanks, I'm glad that I'm not alone in this. I will pass this on to my MCSE.

>Some in this group have looked at this in the past but we are still not exactly sure why...
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>The thread is #364019 but it's not exactly what you are talking about.
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>Here is what I know.
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>NT keeps a files that have been opened and closed. IN some sort of a file cache for I suppose better performance.
>In the foxpro case it always seems to leave the FPT file open.
>There is some code I have used to varify this in the file section. It's in the file section called: OpenFiles or something.
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>I think it occurs more under NTFS but I can't verify this Yet.
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>It's the shows the same thing you are noticing.
>
>From my Oracle DBA experience I know the following more things you could try:
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>1) Add / Change these registry entries
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>Its pretty obvious what these do from their descriptions. Performance gain is rumoured to be up to 5% but
>I haven't tested to fully prove this assertion, and of course does not change in any way my view that every
>Oracle database should use raw devices.
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>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
>"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
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>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
>"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
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>2) Change the preference: In the control panel. Network -> Services, choose the server service and click on the
> properties button.
> You'll see a radio button that makes NT work as an application server or a file server.
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> It does something strange when you have it set as a File Server which is what you might expect to
> set it to for a foxpro application but I thought about trying to set it as an Application Server.
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> I am not having the problem at the moment in a consistant enough way so I haven't tested my theory.
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> But I can't see any harm in trying it?
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>3) Use raw devices or FAT rather than NTFS.... Not sure if this will work but ....Just another idea..
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>I have a guess these might work but can't prove it.
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>Let me know if this helps.