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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?
It is not the amount of memory that concerns me most, but the percentage of processor cycles.
And no, the main part of the process - the one that takes a lot of time - would be an external program, for instance, XCOPY or a compression program.
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