From my experience, auto-protect services always slow down the performance.
The only what I was able to do was to add a couple of lines to my code to stop the windows service when VFP application start, and then turn the service on back.


>Hi All!
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>Is it possible for NA auto-protect activity to slow FoxPro performance down significantly?
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>Does excluding of the temporary path ( SYS(2023) ) from auto-protected folders make difference?
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>How about excluding file extensions: DBF, FTP, CDX?
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>Any experience dealing with this issue?
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>Thanks!