This message is similar to one I posted recently about an EXE that I couldn't get to exit memory completely, resulting in a "File access denied" error when I would try to replace the EXE with a new version. However, this one has a new twist.

Even if I try to use a classlib that resides within the EXE from another VFP application, I am also unable to subsequently replace the EXE without a reboot.

Here's the code where I'm using the classlib in the calling EXE:

LOCAL lcBrdClass, lcBrdCastEXE, oMessage, llMessagesFound
lcBrdClass = "BRDCAST"
lcBrdCastEXE = "BRDCAST.EXE"
SET CLASSLIB TO ( lcBrdClass) IN ( lcBrdCastEXE) ADDITIVE
oMessage = CREATEOBJECT( 'Message')
llMessagesFound = oMessage.GetUnReadMessages()
oMessage.CloseTables
RELEASE oMessage
CLEAR CLASS oMessage
CLEAR CLASSLIB BRDCAST
IF llMessagesFound
oApp.RunBroadcast( 'UNREAD')
ENDIF

In cast it matters, the EXE in question occasionally needs to be able to download a newer version of itself, exit, replace the old version with the new and then restart. (A seperate launcher application is run in it's own thread that waits for the initial app to close and then performs the replacement and relaunches the new version.)

Any help would be much appreciated.