There are a few things worth considering:

1) the most common cause of slow 'loading' is highly burdened forms. In this case, since the first starts nicely, this is probably NOT the case here.

2) The second thing that does play a role when in use is virus checking software. This has OFTEN been found to be a cause and configuring the program to exclude the (many) common VFP-only file types from checking pays off big.
This applies to either/both server/workstation running virus detection software. The easiest way to check this as casue is to temporarily disable the software and test to see the performance afterwards.

3) another less frequent cause has to do with Windows' value for "MTU", which has to do with the sending of data across a LAN. Do a search of MTU here and you will find some interesting observations and a link to a site that has some explanation and downloadable software to fix the problem.

4) Finally, it might be worthwhile to look for MSKB articles regarding XP as a file server to 'older' Windows OSes. In the back of my mind I have some recollection of some problem with the combination.

Good luck


>Hi all - I have an application, running an .exe, on a server running windows XP Professional. 8 workstations running windows 98 second edition, most are a 500-900 mghz chip. The first work station to sigh in gets excellent login time and response time. The 2nd or subsequent users takes 50+ seconds to login, 10 seconds or more on a screen refresh after doing a find. Respopnse time is abysmal. I have loaded the app on my home newtwork, and for a 1.3 ghz chip running windows 2000 Professional, it takes almost a minute to get to the login form.
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>I do a load of some public variables in the app class in the before readevents, however, that is the only custom code. I do have the dodefault in place.
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>I loaded it on my home network which is 2 i.4 gig machines both running Windows 2000 Professional. If I run the executable from a different machine than it is loaded on, it takes almost a minute to get to the login form. My network here and the one at the client is a 100mb network. This seems to be too long and I am stumped as to what to look for. \
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>Any thoughts? Thanks much in advance. Tom