The one about Getting memory information will give you information about memory usage, available, etc on the machine. I thought it might get you started...

DECLARE GlobalMemoryStatus IN kernel32 STRING @ lpBuffer  

lpBuffer = REPLI (Chr(0), 250)  
= GlobalMemoryStatus (@lpBuffer)  

= _display ("This buffer length, in bytes ..........:",  1) 
= _display ("Memory in use, % ......................:",  5) 
= _display ("Physical memory, in bytes .............:",  9) 
= _display ("Physical memory available, in bytes ...:", 13) 
= _display ("Committed memory limit, in bytes ......:", 17) 
= _display ("Available memory to commit, in bytes ..:", 21) 
= _display ("User mode portion..., in bytes ........:", 25) 
= _display ("Unreserved/uncommitted memory .........:", 29) 

PROCEDURE  _display (lcCaption, lnOffs) 
    ? lcCaption + TRANS(buf2dword(SUBSTR(lpBuffer,lnOffs,4)),; 
        "999,999,999,999,999,999") 
RETURN 

FUNCTION  buf2dword (lcBuffer) 
RETURN; 
    Asc(SUBSTR(lcBuffer, 1,1)) + ; 
    Asc(SUBSTR(lcBuffer, 2,1)) * 256 +; 
    Asc(SUBSTR(lcBuffer, 3,1)) * 65536 +; 
    Asc(SUBSTR(lcBuffer, 4,1)) * 16777216 
ENDFUNC 

I did a google search on globalmemorystatus and looked at the subject on msdn - then I did a little research around that area on the site and found these...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/system_information_functions.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/system_info_str.asp





>Hi Wayne, thanks for replying!
>
>>Look in the September 03 UT Magazine VFP Tips - might get you started.
>
>Did that, but just see tips on "Positioning an item in a listbox", "Calculations using Money (Currency)", "Setting Time on the Local Machine" and "Getting Information About Memory on a Computer".
>
>Pardom me if I missed something in your message.
>
>Could you help me a bit further?
>
>Regards,
>
>Fernando
>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>There is a means for an app to call the Windows API to get information about CPU utilization (and some other figures - memory, number of processes etc - as well) in the PC it is running?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance for any tip.
>>>
>>>Fernando