I ran listed below small programm in VFP 5.0 and it took 94 seconds !!! In Foxpro 2.5 for DOS it took only 3 seconds !!! The programm and tables are located on a network drive. Please, help me to find a reasonable explanation of this mistery. Sincerely, Igor Gelin, System Developer SET EXCL OFF lClaimFrom="800700" lClaimTo="806300" nTotal=0 Select 0 USE ("f:\ENCO") ALIAS INST INDEX ("f:\ENCONUM") Set NEAR ON Seek Alltrim(lClaimFrom) Set NEAR OFF nTemp=Seconds() Count For !Deleted() While ENUM <= lClaimTo To nTotal Wait window Str(Seconds()-nTemp)+"seconds." Use In INST [ ...and GMRider added: ] Check the status of SET DELETED in both environments... I had this EXACT problem - presented much egg on my face once - in my 26 environment, SET DELETED was OFF by default - in VFP it was on - and I didn't have a tag on deleted(). results in SEVERE performance differences hth...