Gee Garrett, I've got two Seti's running and I don't see this flaky behavior. While I do have a dual processor 2gHz Xeon system, I'm not sure why Seti would "eat" more VFP's cycles than say Word.

Rick

>>I keep getting a VERY annoying behavior in the release VFP8. Sometimes when
>>I use the method pulldown when editing an object, VFP freezes, running the
>>processor at or near 100%. Usually if I alt-tab to another Windows window and
>>return, it resumes proper functioning, but not always. VFP7 doesn't do this for
>>me. Anybody else see this behavior?
>
>Only in conjunction with Seti@Home. If I kill the Seti@Home process, I get control of VFP back immediately. Are you running anything that uses your machine's idle cycles?