Thanks. I'll see if that dog will hunt (knowing full well that it won't).

__Stephen

>I didn't look at the code because this smells suspiciously like an anti-virus related problem that others have reported.
>
>If you have a virus checker on any of the workstations (or server, I suppose) in question, see if it helps any to disable it.
>
>If it does then hopefully you can configure the virus checker to ignore .DBC, .DBF, etc. files that are not executable anyway.
>
>good luck
>
>Jim Nelson
>
>
>>I am suddenly getting calls from inhouse clients on a system that has been functioning fine for years. I believe that the server it's on is now W2K?
>>
>>Basically the response is terrible. Opening tables is rough and time consuming. At most I will have 5+ users at a time on this system, and they all hit at once. (get yelled at in a meeting and everyone races to input data)
>>
>>There is a start.exe on each workstation that calls a single .app on the server. There is no changing this system so don't tell me to move it all local!
>>
>>Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior?
>>
>>here is the code. Notice the FLOCK that I commented out as a first try in fixing this.
>>
>>*/ The next step is somewhat controversial /*
>>CLOSE DATA
>>*set step on
>>IF plOpenFlag
>>**--pab 10/99
>>SET REPROCESS TO 10 SECONDS
>>**--end 10/99
>> FOR pnI = 1 TO ALEN(paView,1)
>> SELECT (paView[pnI,4])
>>**--pab 10/99 lock before opening table
>>* USE ( ALLT(paView[pnI,1]) ) AGAIN ALIAS ( ALLT(paView[pnI,2]) )
>>* IF FLOCK()
>>* SET ORDER TO TAG ( ALLT(paView[pnI,3]) )
>>* UNLOCK
>>* ELSE
>>* plOpenFlag=.F.
>>* WAIT wind "Network congestion. Try again later."
>>* wait wind alltrim(paView[pnI,1])
>>* ENDIF
>>**--end pab
>>*-- SCR Lock Problem
>> USE ( ALLT(paView[pnI,1]) ) AGAIN ALIAS ( ALLT(paView[pnI,2]) ) ;
>> ORDER ( ALLT(paView[pnI,3]) )
>>*-- End SCR lock issue
>>
>>
>>
>>__Stephen