Mark,
When I've had this problem with a top-level form on the OS desktop and with no child forms, the way I got around it was to put
APPLICATION.Visible = .T.
in the queryunload or some such similar place.

good luck

>VFP8 SP1 application because VFP9 will not be RTM before the project is due.




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>I have started a new project the uses a top level form and the rest of the forms are shown in the top level form. The Desktop property is false, and the ShowWindow property is set appropriately. I am having a problem getting the EXE from releasing from memory when I shutdown the app. I have been quite thoughtful about garbage collection and releasing objects I created, but obviously I have missed something. Now the $64k question, does anyone have any tips for how to debug this? Once you run the app, the debugger is useless, and if I try to dummy-down the app by running in the desktop, the conditions are changed. TIA!