>>Try disabling any anti-virus software you may have running on the W2KPro box.
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>Al,
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>PMFJI - I read multiple posts here regarding the success of doing this. My question is, why? Aren't we supposed to have the anti-virus software on all our boxes? Does running VFP and W2KPro effectively mean that the virus software must be disabled? Perhaps there are settings that can be set instead? Just trying to find the best solution as I have a number of clients who are getting ready to move to these configurations.

Well, the main point was to identify the cause of the problem. If it's the AV software, disabling it is the fastest and most reliable way to find out if it's causing the trouble.

I'm of two minds when it comes to running AV software. I believe that all except expert users should run AV software. However, these users should not become complacent; vigilance is still required against new, fast-spreading threats (typically via e-mail or other Internet channel).

I believe expert users can run AV software as they see fit.

If you choose to run real-time scanning software (e.g. Norton AutoProtect) this type of software can typically be configured to exclude certain file types. One approach could be to exclude all VFP file types; it would be important to exclude VFP temp file types as well.

Even that may not help with NAV. If you go to the Symantec site and visit their forum you'll see several messages over the last 6 months or so citing problems with VFP and NAV - one of them from me. Symantec claims to respond to all postings within one business day. I still haven't heard anything, weeks later. I believe they have some sort of bug they're still trying to iron out.