>I wanted to run this by the experts. I have overnight reports that run @ 9pm.
>I have vfp run in a loop continuously until 9pm, then reports run, then loop continues till next nite and so forth all week. Of course this puts the processor at 100% usage. Does this cause the processor to heat up and put more wear on it/shorten it's life?

Timothy,

Why not just create timer that checks once a minute for the appropriate time? You'll just have to allow for +/- 30 seconds.