>I have a couple of compiled vfp apps that I have running, one serves as a reminder and popups at a certain time of day and the other starts overnite reports during the evening, both are based on timers. However I have both shut down and cannot delete the exe of one of them as it is "being used by another process". I have killed all vfp processes in taskmgr to no avail. Is there some phantom process somewhere?

Download ProcessExplorer and Process Monitor from from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c5a693683.aspx and use them to troubleshoot the problem.