well, i think what the trouble is the settings of the Machine, they are usign SMS?, or have an Antivirus in memory with incoming and outcoming ?, how is setting the VIrtual Memory?, your config.fpw is right? you have in this machine?, where is the temp directory? , how files exist in the temp directory?, the disk is defrag?, all issues could be the problem

with best Regards

Francisco MOrosini

>>But there is not a good reason why local vfp runtimes should take that long, >unless the machine is very old/in bad shape (that's not he case, I don't >suppose?). That's where the Coverage Log may help, if the problem is as Jon >suggested, in instantiation, something like that actually *inside* your app.
>
>>Also, have you tried creating a virtually "empty" EXE, and running it cold? >That might help quickly to isolate the slowness, to see if there is any >problem related to the vfp runtimes.
>
>I'd thought of doing this - I'll try it at the office tomorrow - it's rather late here (10pm) - I'll let you know how I get on
>
>Anna