My main user just upgraded to a spanking new VAIO notebook A497XP, Pentium M 2Ghz, Radeon 600XT 256MB.

But it's 10 times slower in my fmp solution than is previous crappy 1GHz celeron desktop PC.

In fact it seems that screen redraws are the problem, they're dog slow. I've tried to use freeze/refresh window script steps, it's a tad better but frankly it's not usable.

On the desktop the screen redrwa are very very snappy.

The main difference I see between the 2 computer is the OS. He runs WinXP ptro SP2 on the vaio, NT2000 on the desktop.

Anyone as a clue ?

Its not XP...I run XP SP2 on a desktop and the same on a Dell Inspiron Laptop with a Celeron which is 4-5 years old (not even 1 ghz). The laptop originally had ME on it, and when I changed operating systems, I added an additional 256 meg of memory (ran like the desktop afterwards). That would be my suggestion: add more memory. Maybe the VAIO shares the memory with the video, and while 256 seems like a lot, it maybe booging down.

Steve