Yau,

From my reading of Neil's reply, the answer certainly is yes if you continue using XP-Home.
It doesn't look so much like a VFP problem as it does a OS - and especially XP-Home - kind of problem.

good luck


>Neil,
>From your in-depth knowledge of the subject, can I assume that you too had the same problems I faced and that its beyond VFP to fix it?
>Yau