Bruce,

Try RUN /N c:\etc\myapp.exe. Your little startup EXE can now terminate. It will probably reload the VFP run-time, so you may see a performance hit, but disk caching will probably reduce that quite a bit since you just loaded the run-time when your startup app loaded.

>I have a tiny server EXE that's run from the user desktop, that checks version and copies new app EXE to local hard drive if needed. Then it runs the hard drive app EXE, so I have in the small server EXE:
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>DO c:\etc\myapp.exe
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>as the last line of code.
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>My question is: is there a way to close the small server EXE after it launches the app EXE? Or a slightly different strategy that would accomplish this?