>Hi,
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>Thank for the advise. So you suspect that using the timer is causing the
>problem. So how should I solve it, add the SLEEP API in my application ?
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Yes use the SLEEP API instead of the timer - the SLEEP API is built into Windows, so you just have to call it. It doesn't hog the CPU like the timer does.

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>Else any better way for my application to check for some file indicator
>so that my application will post my database file insteads of using timer.
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>>An application that uses the timer eats up a lot of CPU cycles and is probably screwing you up if it's running continuously. I recommend you look into using the SLEEP API function instead:
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>>http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?group=58&function=80