Foxpro 9 suddenly gone slow 1

[robatwork]

Does anyone have an idea why VPF9.0 that has been running fine on a particular PC has suddenly gone painfully slowly - sometimes taking several minutes to open a form, or change a font etc, sometimes quicker.

This happened 2 days ago, and despite a reload of VPF is still unusable. The operator swears nothing has changed on the PC - nothing else loaded, and nothing else is running slowly.

When it's "waiting" ie trying to do something, the taskmgr shows 99% system idle, so VPF isn't actually doing anything in the way of using system resources

thanks

 

[JRB-Bldr]

Do other non-VFP operations take longer than usual?

Things like opening the My Computer window and having to wait for the contents to be displayed or going to Open a file in something like Word and using the Select file window which has to Browse the system files?

If these other operations are also slow, then the issue is not VFP, but instead possibly an OS/Network issue such as having mapped drives which no longer respond, etc.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[Mike Lewis]

One thing that often slows VFP is a virus checker. Did you (or the operator) install a new AV program, or change the settings of an existing one?

That apart, I can only say that something must have changed on the user's system - albeit something not at all obvious to the operator. Is it possible to run the program on another machine, just for comparison purposes?

Also, is this VFP itself that's slow (as the title of your question suggests), or a compiled application (suggested by your reference to an "operator")?

Mike

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[baltman]

Sometimes the print driver is to blame when it involves fonts etc. Make sure there is a default printer and try updating the driver.

 

[robatwork]

Changed the printer driver to Generic/Text, and so far so good - thanks!

 

[dbMark]

This likely is not your problem but if one or more DOS windows are open, they can hog system resources (unless it is a multi-core CPU). As I recall, cmd.exe could slow the Windows applications but not older command.com.