>Do you have tested with only one loop?
>The ToolTip property holds the Text you are setting to it
>Get the amount of memory each time you set the property and see the increase, if it is constant, that is the size the Tooltip property needs to hold the string you set. off course there are hidden data structures than VFP uses to do its things and many times you can obtain the needed memory.
>Is like the hard disk storage there are clusters (4 Kb for FAT 32) but a file with 100 bytes use one cluster (4Kb). Maybe the OS is allocating more memory htan it need.
>I think so
>
>Mauricio

Mauricio,

After operation is completed, should it go back to the original memory used? It's clearly a VFP problem in memory managment, which could be easily reproduced in tests for TextBoxes properties. David indicated, what it was fixed in VFP7.0