Hey Charles,
>On some boxes a view with indexes ( created from metadata in VFE ) will crash on opening. Excluding views dbc solves the problem.
I remember reading some of your other posts on this, but now I'm seeing something which sounds similar and might be related (Since moving an app to VFP8).
Do you get an error# logged?
Is the error confined to only some views?
Local or remote data source?
Did you try SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0?