Rich,
Anti-virus software is the most common cause. maybe you can temporarily disable it to see if it's at fault.
another interesting factor (MTU) is dscribed in:
Re: XP and Extreme Slowness Thread #
765547 Message #
766378Is the file server the NT system?
good luck
>VFP 6
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>I support several machines on a network which have just been upgraded from NT to XP. The newer machines are significantly faster, but are performing significantly more slowly.
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>For example: One process which takes 71 seconds on an NT machine still attached to the network takes 159 seconds on one of the XP workstations. I haven't (yet) been able to track down exactly which lines of code are executing so slowly, but any general pointers would be gratefully accepted.
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>CONFIG settings???????????
>Machine settings???????????
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>Thanks to all.............Rich