Has anyone mentioned defragging the hard drive? I have seen that make a big difference. (maybe not 80 times though)

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From: "Sytze de Boer" <sytze.kiss@gmail.com>

To: "profox" <profox@leafe.com>

Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:45 PM

Subject: Re: Windows 7 + VFP9 speed problem

What other files are necessary to run VFP9.exe, in order to run vfp9.exe

Myapp

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Mike Copeland <mlcopeland@gmail.com> wrote:

> Done. Thanks Mike!

>

> As I said in another response, I have used this in all my Windows VFP

> apps for many years...it was already in the application I'm having speed

> issues with...I re-enabled it and unfortunately it didn't help.

>

> ****************************************

> func SetMem

> * Requests free RAM memory value from Windows, sets VFP to only utilize

> that amount.

> * Prevents slow performance for users who run many apps at the same time.

> * Keep with CHARTOBIN function below!!

> LOCAL lnAvailableMem, lpMemoryStatus, lnPct

> DECLARE GlobalMemoryStatus IN Win32API STRING @lpMemoryStatus

> lpMemoryStatus = REPLICATE(CHR(0), 32)

> GlobalMemoryStatus(@lpMemoryStatus)

> lnAvailableMem = CharToBin(SUBSTR(lpMemoryStatus, 13, 4))

> * Fine tuning option. Specify a decimal value to allocate less than

> 100%

> * i.e. .5 would be 50%

> *!* lnPct = 1

> *!* IF TYPE("main.nSetMemoryPct") == "N"

> *!* lnPct = goApp.nSetMemoryPct

> *!* ENDIF

> *!* lnAvailableMem = (lnAvailableMem * lnPct)

> SYS(3050, 1, lnAvailableMem)

> SYS(3050, 2, (lnAvailableMem/2) )

> RETURN lnAvailableMem

> *********************************************

> func CharToBin

> param tcWord

> * only called by SETMEM()

> LOCAL lnChar, lnWord

> lnWord = 0

> FOR lnChar = 1 TO LEN(tcWord)

> lnWord = lnWord + (ASC(SUBSTR(tcWord, lnChar, 1)) * (2 ^ (8 *

> (lnChar - 1))))

> ENDFOR

> RETURN lnWord

> *********************************************

>

> I'm pretty sure that's the one.

>

> Mike

>

> > On 3/3/2011 10:55 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote:

> >> I wonder if this much memory ends up swapping.

> >> This might be a good reason to change the SYS(3050) settings.

> >> Perhaps your Config.fpw might need the old MEMLIMIT, which may not work

> in

> >> VFP 9 at all

> >

> > Use Ed Leafe's Setmemory.prg. It's in the Downloads section on ProFox.

> >

>

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