Two things come to mind...

1) Any chance that the network has a problem, or possibly the NIC has gone to sleep mode?

2) Have you installed SP1 for VFP8. It has several fixes for fatal errors.

good luck

>I am getting intermittent C0000005 exceptions when closing tables with the USE command.
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>This occurs in our application shutdown routine.
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>Any ideas as to why closing a table with USE might cause an access violation in VFP 8. This behavior has appeared only with VFP 8 - VFP 6 & 7 did not exhibit this behavior.
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>Many thanks