>I have an application which uses three tables opened in the data enviroment of a form. The application works perfectly after compiling into a .exe file on my development machine.
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>On the user's machine, with only the runtime .dll files the form is unable to find two of the tables.
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Sounds more like a pathing issue. Does this user have the same drive mappings? Does the exe run on your machine.

>Quite a few other things work differently such as the application opening minimized and the exit command not working properly.

What's an exit command? Again, test the exe on your machine and note if there are differences.