FoxPro taking forever to start up on Windows 7

I'm assisting a company that is using fairly old software and they want to get off the old server and on to a more recent workstation.

Here is their setup:

Windows 2000 Server (domain controller) FoxPro 5.0a as a shared folder (no database, just a folder with the data)

How they launch the Inventory system:

PC users double click a lucky.exe shortcut which is mapped to the server share in a \lucky folder. The only requirement for this to run is to map a driver letter E: to the server\lucky folder. When the exe is launched the custom FoxPro inventory system loads immediately. Everyone in the office uses this same method of opening and they can all run it at the same time. The data seems to be stored in a folder called \lucky\LU_

In this current environment the inventory system works fine.

Note: If I try to browse to the LU_ folder it takes quite a bit of time to display the files. I don't know if it's because there is 1gb of data in that \LU_ folder.

However, for the fear of the hard drives failing they would like to get rid of the Windows 2000 server and have the inventory run on a newer machine. So I bought a Windows 7 Pro workstation. Copied the \lucky folder and tried to run the inventory system.

It takes more than 4 minutes just to load the Log in screen. It's clearly hanging or doing something erroneous. Then a pop up asks if we want to RUN the exe). Clicking Run then takes another 4 minutes or so just to see the log in screen appear. I've tested this on a Windows 7 workstation and Windows XP - both have same issues. Once the login screen finally loads the system works fine.

So to recap, I am trying to get the inventory system to work on a Windows 7 Pro workstation but it simply takes forever to load.

Things I've tried that made no difference:

1. right click "Run as administrator"
2. Compatibility mode

Thanks in advance!

Did you change only the server computer? Is just a new OS or a new hardware altogether? With the fast and slow system, were the all the clients the very same?

If so, it could indicate a network or hardware problem on the newer server. Antiviruses on servers are also known to cause such issues, try disabling it if you have one.

Alejandro85 said:

Did you change only the server computer? Is just a new OS or a new hardware altogether? With the fast and slow system, were the all the clients the very same?

If so, it could indicate a network or hardware problem on the newer server. Antiviruses on servers are also known to cause such issues, try disabling it if you have one.

They are still using the old Windows 200 server every day. I need to phase it out and get everyone on the new Workstation (WIN7). Yes, all clients same.

I will try disabling Antivirus. And it's not a server, just WIN7 Pro.

I have an update on this. AntiVirus prorgram uninstalled and not the culprit.

To test, I took an old XP Workstation (newly formatted) and connected to the live environment (Windows 2000 Server), joined the Workgroup, mapped the drive, launched lucky.exe and it loads fast and works great.

I then removed the mapping, change the workgroup to point to new Windows 7 Workstation, remapped the drives, launched lucky.exe and its brutally slow. I checked resource monitor on the Windows 7 Workstation and it does not spike.

This is a complete mystery. Someone had mentioned something about the files I copied from Windows 2000 Server (Live environment) to the Windows 7 Workstation (test environment) having Encrypted Files enabled since it was on Windows 2000 Server first?

I put together a quick video to show you: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/c26Dqwejy3

Ranger4 said:

Is there anything at this website that might help you.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...-on-win-7x64?f

No, this is not related