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Quick update: this HP bug WAS the cause of the problems on all three machines (I opened up a completely different db I found on one of the machines and it exhibited the same symptoms). I decided to apply the patch, which cured all three machines. Definitely one to remember if you have a newish...

Again, sorry for not replying sooner…doing other things. After a few more hours, you will be interested to know I’ve found the solution to the problem! Unknown to me until yesterday, the HP machine comes complete with some software called “ProtectTools Security Manager”. I discovered that a...

Curses, I tried refresh rate, but it is set to 60Hz as per normal for most computers (there is nothing lower, as expected). I also tried turning off all hardware acceleration, but that didn’t work either. I’ve got to do other things now, so can’t try anything else for a while. Skeletal

Oh! Another bizarre story…well worth a look; I’ll add it to the list, thanks. Skeletal

Now I have it at home, typically, it is not behaving exactly as it was at work. You may recall that I managed to get the dodgy table down to two fields and zero records and it would hang, for ever. Now it will only hang if I leave a few thousand records (although I can still get rid of all but...

Hello all. Sorry for not updating for a while. We had to make alternative arrangements (i.e. find another computer that would work) to run the db (I’ve lost count of the number of computers that do work, I think its 7 or 8 now). But my colleague and I still want to try to find the problem, so...

Yes, the thread is getting worryingly long; thanks to all who are still offering suggestions. A very good point about memo fields. Yes, the real db has one, but the users limit the text to a few dozens of characters. During the culling process to get down to the remaining two fields for the...

On the real database there is a stack of code and multiple forms. Originally, the obvious answer was that some of this was going haywire. That is why we eliminated everything down to the one dodgy table. One of the test dbs thus became the dodgy table, nothing else. All we do on this test db...

Sorry Guus2005, I’m not sure I follow your logic. As I say, the db is completely standalone, the db and all its data is on the C drive, no network is involved. In fact the dodgy computers are not actually on a network. Bizarrely, one of the crazy ideas (and a bit related to The Doc Man’s ideas)...

Wow Doc Man, that’s some info you have there! I’ve been niggling that it is the machine/Windows rather than Access which is why I did try turning off stuff in msconfig. Beyond that I couldn’t think of other sensible things to do. We did note it was dual core and thought that may be the problem...

Ah, I see it! I'll try to do this on Friday, depending on what my colleague is up to. I actually want to get the files off one of the dodgy computers to be sure it is the right one as on my machine here, it all works of course! Skeletal

That is very kind of you. I’m not working at the dodgy computers’ location ATM (50 miles away so not a five minute trip), neither is my colleague (typical!). I think he is back on Friday so I’ll talk to him. Forgive my stupidity, but to where do I send the db? Would it be to the xcraftlimited...

Three machines are at fault, five are fine (we recently tried it on another). We haven’t set them up for different users; whenever they are used it is as “Administrator”. We keep wondering what it is about the machines and I did wonder if it was some junk running in the background, which is why...

This was one of the tests we did. In the end we got the table down to zero records and two fields, and that was it for one of the test dbs! And another test was to import data as a CSV into a test db. But also, don’t forget that on all the other computers, the full original table opens in the...

Sorry for the delay in replying, I was out yesterday. There is only one user and the db is standalone; there is no shared data. The only reason I talked about splitting is that one cause of “hangs” is the network connection between the front and back-ends. As it is standalone, clearly, this...