>I have had the whole development environment slow down over time under Windows XP using Dual Athlon MP system with 1 gig Ram but have not determined the cause. I simply exit and start again and everything is back to speed.
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Simon,

Trying to make me jealous, eh?< vbg >

It just so happens that this morning, I managed to crash Win2K Pro SP2 again. Again, the debugger was open. No breaks or watches were set, but it took forever. When I tried to close down the debugger...BOOM! I got an error saying that VFP was trying to write to a memory address in explorer.exe. I finally managed to shut down VFP via the Task Manager, but there were no icons on the desktop, no start menu button. When I tried to shut down, I had to manually shutdown explorer.exe.

Sound familiar anyone?