Not sure if the "knowing full well that it won't)" means that disabling the virus checker will be a no-no or if you know it isn't the source of the problem.

If the former, then reconfiguring the virus checker to not bother with any NON-EXECUTABLE FP files should surely not bother the powers. For FP 2.6 this really amounts to .DBF, .CDX, .FPT and possibly .IDX, for your running application. There would be a few more if you were talking development too.

Again, good luck

Jim

>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