It's back. The first time I ran COPYEXE this morning in VFP7 the same slowdown took place - about 25 seconds to process.

My coverage log showed that each COPY FILE cmd took about 2.8 seconds. Somehow that command is getting slowed down in VFP7.

>Also, I'm assuming you are testing on a machine without any VFP versions >installed except the vfp7 client runtimes, or at least repeating the delay >on more than one machine to be sure it's not a one-machine fluke.
The machine has vfp3,5 & 7 loaded on it.

>Other possibilities are things like AV delays, permission-check delays, >trouble locating runtimes, the vfp debugger running
Debugger is not running...
>, memory swaps...

What is odd is that vfp5 never did that.

Thanks for the tips.

Steve