>I believe that VFP has major compatibility problems with NT4 and especially Windows 2000. See my message below. Its unbelievable. Microsoft wont help without charging and they cant say if there is an answer. The only glimmer of light we have so far seen is that w95 my perform better in this context, but we havent carried out enough tests.
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>After weeks of posting messages about VFP & Win2K on this and other boards we have finally abandoned all hope of getting w98 workstations to work with Win2K Professional or Server. Only the first w/s to start up operates at any speed - all subsequent w/s grind very slowly.
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>Our answer has been to switch 3 installations to running w98 on the server!!!!!
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>Any comments anyone?

So, to summarize, you have a network with certain workstations, hubs, cabling, etc. If you use NT or W2K Server boxes as servers, VFP query performance is slow. If you slot in a W98 box as a "server", VFP query performance is fast.

MS, and most people here, would say that is not a normal state of affairs. If the only difference is the server type, you have a server configuration problem.

You can thrash around on this problem for "weeks", but a some point you've got to consider that your time is worth something, either to you or your boss. In that light, a US$295 pay-per-incident tech support call starts to look quite reasonable. Also, bear in mind that if the problem is eventually found to be some obscure issue caused by a default server configuration, or if the answer can't already be found in the MSKB or would be a valuable new addition to it, MS will sometimes refund the fee. I personally had that happen on an installation of Exchange Server 5.5