>>Hi all,
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>>I have a client who is experiencing significant slowdown issues when accessing tables on their server. Granted, one of the tables in 41MB with 178,000 records, but even in our offices, we only experience a delay of 8 sec when opening it (compared to their 3 minutes). The client is a large pharmaceutical company, and so, they do have quite an advanced network with a lot of traffic, however, I feel that this should not cause a 2500% slowdown. I was just wondering if there are any slowdown issues with VFP 6.0 that are solved / improved in later versions of VFP ?
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>>Thanks ...
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>Mark,
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>It sounds to me like an issue with the computer, not the application. My son has a faster computer than I, but many operations on his take (seemingly) forever. I'd check the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER hives under Software\Microsoft Windows\Run to see what's being loaded on startup. Anything there that's not needed should be removed.

This little utility is quite nice for dealing with what's loaded on startup. It's a control-panel applet and it's free.
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml