>Bruce, first I used my current form, removing everything, leaving just the exit button. I removed everything other than settings from the prg file, under vfp it still ran and stopped until exit was clicked. I compiled it, closed vfp and ran the exe - it still ran perfectly.

I see what's going on now, from the AutoRelease -you're using a *formset*. I don't use those any longer, so can't say what rules apply. Normal rules get blurred with the extra layer of a formset, though, so that probably explains the behavior (more-or-less :)

Anyway, some things may not still work correctly without a READ EVENTS, so they're still recommended as a SOP in your main PRG.