Glad to know that you've got other worries...

I don't know about the Windows indexing service...guess I'll check into that too.

thanks again
...douglas
>No worries about keeping me awake at night - getting to grips with VFP8 in a real project is doing that. It's one thing to test something on existing code, but quite another to start a new project from scratch. All I seem to be doing is re-working class libraries.
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>Out of interest, another random thought: the Windows indexing service - is that turned off?
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>Regards
>Simon