Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:46:57 +0100, I wrote >I hurried in trying the revised CFT.EXE. >It worked !!! I was so glad, but I was a bit too hasty in telling this. The new CFT.EXE has been a real improvement, but I still have serious problems. The Gedcom export function is unstable, it sometimes works at full speed, but it just as often slows down. Sometimes it even causes the PC to freeze. The export usually works well right after a fresh boot, with CFT running as the first and only program, but after a while, still with CFT being the only program, the problem starts, apparently at random. I have not been able to find any consistent pattern as to when or why the export slowes down. The PC uses only abt. 5% CPU power at the slow speed, and I wonder why. The only reason I can see is that the excessive Harddisk access limits the speed. Does the CFT program forget to use the RAM ? I have no other programs running at the same time and I have stopped as many processes as possible. Norton Antivirus is removed, although I have no firm evidence of its influence. I also tried to run CFT in the PC 'Safe mode'. In that case the Gedcom exports seemed to work only at slow speed. None of those measures have a clear effect on the problem. The experiments are all made on my stationary PC. My portable PC (also with WinXP) will never operate the export at full speed, it always insist on running at slow speed. Thanks to Ira and all Users, especially George W. Durman and John Smith, for your help and interest in this strange problem and for all your suggestions. My I hope for more help? Erik