Program (not responding)

[Guest]

We're running XP Professional workstations and on a single 2003 SBS network.
We have one database program, written in a language called Clarion, (or
Topspeed), that works fine except when the words "(not responding)" appear
next to the program name in the lower task bar. The program still reads and
writes to it's files on the server, but some of the information wrtten or
saved is done incorrectly. What does it actually mean that the program is
not responding, if it means anything at all?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jim]

We're running XP Professional workstations and on a single 2003 SBS
network.
We have one database program, written in a language called Clarion, (or
Topspeed), that works fine except when the words "(not responding)" appear
next to the program name in the lower task bar. The program still reads
and
writes to it's files on the server, but some of the information wrtten or
saved is done incorrectly. What does it actually mean that the program is
not responding, if it means anything at all?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

It may be hung waiting on some resource. When some program acts like that
on my system, it is usually waiting on the network or the disk drive.
Process Explorer may help you understand the problem.
Jim