Paul,

>The other suggestion about virus checking software is a good one: I've seen that slow VFP applications to a crawl, so I'm sure the same thing could happen in a VSS project.

It absolutely does. When I began to work with VSS, it took about 100% more time to get the whole project from VSS with Norton AV 2000(? - the version before 2002).

Regards,
Armin