>>You must have a really slow hard drive then. I can run VFP8 just fine (and use Intellisense OK) on my laptop with an AMD K6/2 333Mhz. And the hard drive doesn't get much slower than the one there! < g >
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>Maybe that's the reason, My PC's HD is a Maxtor 90430D3 (got from the properties sheet).

Hi Fernando,

Don't get me wrong, it's slow on that laptop, but it's not unusable. One thing you might want to try is disabling Intellisense from automatically popping up and only bringing it up when you need it with the Ctrl-J (properties) and Ctrl-I keys (commands).