>My application opens with a main form. From that form or menu other forms are called. When in
>the development environment, it works great in 8, but when I run it as an EXE on the same machine,
>or my laptop (both are windowsXP workstations), after I open up a form and close it, then open up
>the same form, or any other form and try to close it, it locks up, the CPU utilization goes to
>98-100 and never returns. It does not do this when running the source code from the vfp command
>window, only when I running the actual exe from the directory.

I just built a trivial set of forms, and didn't see the problem. If you build an EXE with an almost-blank form calling an almost-blank form, can you reproduce the behavior, or is it something about your current app?