Hi Wayne

No I don't think that's the problem cos, besides having the UT and Otlook idling in the background, I'm not multi-tasking and this problem often happens when I'm doing nothing with the pc. Besides, I've plenty of memory and, as i said, it's not just on this m/c.

I was mainly curious to know if anyone else has experienced this and, if so, if there's a "cure".

Terry

>This could be caused by a lot of 'swapping' - when the computer's memory has been used, and the OS has to begin using harddrive space for memory. You may want to increase the amount of memory in your machine - and possibly throttle the amount of memory that VFP uses.
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