I seem, you are right. However I personally have never used the article recommendation (just because usually I am too far from the NT Server or have no access to it). In most cases I use WindowsNT server KILL.exe program to close hanging applications.

>Yuri,
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>Thanks for your help. Given the nature of the page content you pointed me to I understand that VFP requests these oplocks by default when "talking" to NT Server, am I right? Have you ever changed the value of the registry entries the article refers to?