>Our menu runs VFP compiled exe's and executes DO FORM .... as a "procedure" from the menu. But often the user's VFP menu seems to hold onto some of these programs, forms or whatever and I'm not sure how to release them. It seems like the menu has a file handle on the file. How to I fix this?

Do you get an error message?

What is happening in your program that makes you think that a menu "seems to hold onto some of these programs, forms or whatever".