Since you don't mention it, I have to ask if you have installed SP1 for VFP7.
If not, you really really SHOULD, because it eliminated a number of C00000005 exceptions.

good luck


>Today we migrated from Visual foxpro 6.0 to 7.0. In one of the forms certain dbf are in exclusive use. In case another user tries to access the same form first the error 1705 is encountered which is trapped by the Error routine and appropriate message is displayed. On clicking the OK Button immediately the fatal error message is encountered and we are out of the application