>Win2000 reports it as running. It responds to menu options.
OK. Well, I thought that VFP got its time from the computer clock, and therefore I suspected the reason might be a program that stopped reacting.
You could also try and see what happens if you use other time functions: datetime() or seconds().
Or perhaps the program uses the correct time, bur for some unknown reason the StatusBar isn't refreshing. You could test this theory, displaying a counter variable after the time.
>The reason I'm doing this instead of NT scheduler is:
???
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