>Just a suggestion: try to set the _VFP.AutoYield to .F. before runnign that long query.

Becuase I am using ActiveX objects in my forms, I already had _VFP.AutoYield set to .F. After spend much time on it, the only solution I could find was to throw in a wait state at the end of each record being processed.

wait window [Processed ]+ltrim(str(nCounter))+[ records] nowait

This, at least, caused screen refreshes and did not allow the user to have their click on the screen interpreted.

Thanks for the assistance.

DJ :o)