Timothy,
What version of windows are you running? All of the newer versions have that little Tasks folder under the Windows directory. You can add an entry in there that will just run your exe (after removing all your looping code) at 9pm every night.
>I have overnight reports that run @ 9pm.
>I have vfp run in a loop continuously until 9pm, then reports run, then loop continues till next nite and so forth all week.