Takes very long time to switch between Form and Form Design

[orange]

In this last week I have found that the time to switch from Form to Form Design is much longer than usual. I get a busy cursor for up to 20 seconds. The same thing is happening between Report and report Design.
I also had some sample Reports running a week ago. They seemed quite fast, but this week there is a very noticeable delay.
Even when running code and with a break point, when looking at the Locals and clicking on Me, it can take 5-10 seconds before the Me opens and shows its details. Again the busy cursor.
I'm running ACC2010 on Lenovo laptop I7 with win8.1. I have Skype running and Firefox open, but not any other user processes.
I have tried compact/repair.
I even took the basic query with data for the report and let Report wizard build a report---still very slow.



Has anyone had similar issues? Is there something to set/reset?

I know M$oft had a big update Dec 8....

[June7]

I have not seen anything unusual. But haven't run any large or complex dbs from laptop lately.

Have you tried db on another computer?

Might want to update your forum profile.

[orange]

Thanks.
I haven't tried on a different machine.
I did download a copy of NWind2000 and created a report there. Slow also.

I did update the profile, thanks for the nudge.

[ItsMe]

The only time I have experienced these symptoms is when I am designing an FE with linked tables (even when the backend is on a local drive). So I will maintain a persistence connection while designing.

[orange]

Yes I am aware of persistent connection. But this is all one local database.

[alansidman]

Jack, is this on only one db or is it consistent amongst all your db.

[orange]

Hi Alan,

It's on 3 different databases --all relate to Northwind.

I was responding to a poster a week ago. Had set up some sample forms, all seemed to work well.
Then I realized I didn't know if it was a real NWind or some modified version. So,I went looking for an older Northwind. I found a couple and have done some work to get a form to capture some parms then open a report. In most cases, moving from Form to Design or Report to Report Design seems to take forever. And running the report is noticeably slower than before.

Thanks for responding.