>>Hi Michel. If its any consolation I have experienced this too. I do not know how to repeat it but it has happened several times. VFP8 just appears to hang and only end-task stops it. I have noticed it happen several times when I had been busy packing/reindexing a largish file with many indexes residing on a W2K server and I am running on XP. However, I cannot create a repro.
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>Well, for me, I only start it, and for most of the times, I can't close it minutes after.

Michel, does task manager show if VFP is busy at all? Is there a start up program? And have you done the usual of deleting foxuser? What else is running on the system, if anything. What about AV? Clearly this behaviour must be specific to your PC since such behaviour would never have passed unnoticed.