Thanks Kevin.

I created the specified directory and moved northwind to it.

My machine is much newer than the customers I support. It's a P4-3Ghz, 1GB RAM, Dell portable, data on local drive (obviously).

My response times were:

1-2 seconds first time launch.
Reasonably fast interface behaviour, sub 1 second. (Not snapping like my other [VFP] apps, but not watching slow screen painting either.)
When relaunching app 2nd and 3rd time, it comes up almost instantly.

I know the real question is "how fast is this on older hardware?" But I don't have an older machine in the office right now that I can test with.

Guy



>Obviously, Rod can answer this, but since I read through the code...
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>Assuming you have VS.NET, you'll can pull up the GetFoxConnectionString() function in the Library.vb class, and change the location of the DBC and recompile.
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>If you don't have VS.NET (or don't wish to do that), you'd need to move the Northwind sample folder to the following folder:
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>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8\Samples\Northwind\
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>Hope that helps...
>Kevin