>I am getting a message about file access being denied referencing the .EXE when I try to compile the app.
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>I tried running the .EXE and got a message that windows cannot access, that it may be a problem with permissions.
>I tried deleting the .EXE from the folder and get pretty much the same message...about permissions.
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>I've never "dealt" with permissions before so not sure how to handle this. Nothing has changed on my pc. I'm still running the same Windows 10.
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>I tried deleting the entire folder to restore from a backup, but it wouldn't let me.
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>Curiously the app runs fine within the development environment. It just seems to be the .EXE that is screwed up.
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>Any ideas....pretty much lost as to what to do now.
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>Rich Murillo

Here are a few stupid questions (based on a wild guess I'm making):
1. Can look at the Servers tab of the property sheet of the project? Are all the fields there blank? (usually these are blank, unless the project is for a COM sever)
2. Are you finding "extra files" along with EXE -- such as TLB and/or VBR files? (usually you don't get these for FXP/APP/EXE)
3. If you do as Tore suggested, and run VFP as administrator (i.e. right-click on VFP icon, then select "run as administrator" in context menu), then compile, does the problem seem to go away?

It may be possible that at some time before you stated having this problem, "Single-threaded COM server" or "Multi-threaded COM server" was selected when compiling.