Thank you for the suggestions.

I had forgotten all about ProView which I did try years ago. I am not 
sure I even have a copy any more.

No or broken aliases or paths

File indexing is on and I tested with it on and with it off.

On 20/04/2024 12:18 AM, Kevin Zawicki wrote:
> I was also wondering if you ever used or tried ProView?
> It was a Project viewer replacement someone built.
>
>
> Also,
> Do you have any stray or broken aliases or paths listed in Project Viewer?
>
> Also, also,
> Did you check windows file indexing? I am not sure it is connected, but windows
> file indexing can affect many things.
>
>
>
>
> Robert MacMillan <macfam@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I have still not solved this issue BUT there might be a solution.
>>
>> Some years ago Tony put a post up called "FileBrowser OCX (Windows
>> native common dialogs control)" - 24 May 2002 - which refers to an .exe
>
>> file. The link is no longer valid but does anyone by any chance still
>> have a copy of jsdialog.exe?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On 19/03/2024 3:09 PM, Robert MacMillan wrote:
>>> Hi there.
>>>
>>> this is an odd one. My system has been rock solid for years but
>>> yesterday opening the query dialogue box has slowed down dramatically.
>>> So F10 - F - O - Q brings up the dialogue box. It now takes around 12
>>> seconds for the box to become responsive. It appears that Paradox is
>>> scanning all the files in the directory rather than being almost instant.
>>>
>>> Doing exactly the same thing for Tables or Libraries or anything else
> is
>>> as before. Almost instant.
>>>
>>> It is as though an index or lookup table has become corrupted.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Robert
>