Hi,

At February-08-10, 5:28 PM, Chuck Belanger wrote:

> Admittedly this user is one of those types that load up about 20 (and
> I'm not exaggerating!) programs and expect them all to run just fine. He
> does have plenty of RAM (I think he said 6Gb). He's running 32 bit Vista
> on a laptop. Our support person does say that out of about 100 users
> there are 2 others with similar problems, but they do not run a lot of
> programs in the background.

Is an anti-virus running? It is possible that an anti-virus is
scanning the file every time it is accessed. And, if the database file
is large enough, then the scanning could slow down the data access.
One way to find out would be to exclude the database file from the
anti-virus' scan.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior Software Developer
ACCRA Solutions Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)