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>Basically, I need to do some background process (maintenance, backup, etc.) regularly, and want it to interfere as little as possible with programs in the foreground. The time taken for the background process is, of course, secondary: if it takes 30 minutes instead of 15, and I use the computer normally (right now, the background process makes the computer terribly slow), that's fine.
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Is it a VFP-Program and could sys(3050) be of help?