>mmmm...might of been me. we've had a vfp application that runs 24/7..requires no user action and has no interface...just sits down in the system tray. Problem I had was that on occasion the machine lost a drive connection and it caused the program to crash. For whatever reason a couple of weeks ago the problem magicly went away just as it mysteriously appeared...oooweeeeoooo

Yes, that was the exact simulation here. In our case, the improved hardware did it.