>Erik,
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>>The only rhyme or reason I can put to any of this is that it seems that opening a table (dbf or scx) that requires that VFP open one or more other tables upon using it causes the delay- using any 'free' table is quick.
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>Perhaps some netcard settings need to be tweaked -- maybe netcard io buffer counts or somesuch? Might only show up as a problem when opening several files.
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>I had that on a new HP Server once, while copying large numbers of files from the old server to the new. Upping the 6 or 8 buffer settings on the built-in net card to their max resulted in the computer doing the screaming (instead of me) from that point on.

We checked that. Settings are similar to other NICS in the office, and we tried tweaking a couple to be sure- no change. Thanks.