>I have a question that's been nagging at me for ages...
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>Every so often, while developing, I try to get out of my IDE and get a message... "Cannot exit Visual FoxPro".
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>In the past I've hit the dreaded "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" to bring up the Task Manager and then killed VFP.
>I HATE doing that as I can obviously screw up something or corrupt some tables.
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>However, I see no other way of getting out of VFP.
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>Am I missing something? Is there another (safe) way to exit VFP?
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>Rich Murillo

If this happens often, I suggest that you investigate what's going on. Probably some dangling reference or a process which still runs.

Create a little program with Clear All, Release All, Close All and Quit. Maybe add Cancel also. Then add a hot key to run this program.