Hi Dmitry,

What other code is in the Timer event? Do you disable timer while processing Timer event? Any other details? You can use SYS(1011) to see if there's memory leak.

>Is there a problem with a Timer in VFP 8?
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>I ran into the following problem (maybe it is me, maybe vfp 8).
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>I have a timer on the form which fires every minute. For testing, I set a =messagebox() in the Timer Event method. It so happened that a case I was testing required many, many clicks on the messagebox().
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>What happened is the system got very very slow. And I could not even bring up the Task Manager to kill the process. I had to physically switch the PC off.
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>The same problem repeated a couple of time.
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>Any advice? TIA.