I've never heard of "Win98VersionLie" before - there's exactly 1 hit on Google, relating to improving the compatibility of a Japanese game. Has nothing to do with VFP AFAIK.

I'd get the network guys to check out DNS setup as per the link below. You might also want to look at network MTU - search here in the last 2 years for "MTU" for some interesting posts.

>Thanks for the reply. Some answers to your questions:
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>- These are numerous compiled VFP 5.0 apps running on a Novell/MS Network (not positive which version). The network is a WAN with 5 Novell servers and 1 NT server.
>- This is a single network, but the Win9X machines work fine
>- Anti-virus software has been disabled
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>Some diagnostics run by the IS dept has shown some property called "Win98VersionLie" shows installed improperly. They are asking if I've written the program specifically to run for XP!!! Is there such a thing?
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>Thanks!
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>Bonnie
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>>>I've been developing apps on a Win98 machine. I compile the VFP 5.0 apps and load them on to client machines. The clients are now upgrading to Win2000 and WinXP. The apps seem to run VERY slowly on these Operating Systems. Is there a problem when I compile on a different OS? My clients are able to run win "Win98 Compatibility mode" which then runs the app at an ok speed. Weird!?
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>>We need more details in order to give specific suggestions:
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>>- is this a networked application?
>>- are all these client PCs on one network, or more than one? If it's a single network, hardware or configuration problems can affect all the workstations.
>>- have you disabled antivirus on the server, if present?
>>- if you're using UNC names in a W2K/Active Directory environment make sure DNS is set up properly. W2K and (especially) XP are strongly affected by DNS setup. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=291382
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>>Contrary to what Craig said, 512MB is plenty of RAM on a workstation, unless you're PhotoShopping or editing digital video all day. To check, start up your app, then when it's running fire up the Task Manager with Ctrl-Alt-Delete, then look at "MEM usage" on the Performance tab. As long as that value is below your "Total Physical Memory" it's not a bottleneck.
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>>Windows 2000 servers can often benefit from more than 512MB RAM, if they are also running SQL Server, Exchange, etc.