Liz:

How are you exiting the app? If you have a push-button run a macro with the
Exit action it should shut down Access completely.

        -- Wesley

I have a database ready for distribution except for the one extremely
annoying fact that on quitting the application Access stays in the task
bar.  I have checked that all recordsets and databases have been closed but
still no luck.  Can any one help, I'm getting desperate for a solution.

Liz

Hi Liz,

It seems that Access stands alone even after an Application.Quit when at
many conditions are present: eliminating one of these conditions and Access
will shut down.

The easiest condition in your control is to set any global reference of
object to Nothing. As example, if you have globaly defined

Pblic Db As Database

then, before exiting, you must also write:

Set Db = Nothing

So, check carefully all your global declarations and if one contain an
object ( anything that must be "Set"), assign it to Nothing before closing.

(That condition alone is not enough to REPRODUCE the Access behavior you
have observed, as demonstrated by this code in a module:

Public Db As Database

Public Sub CloseAccess()
    Set Db=CurrentDb()
    Application.Quit
End Sub

Running CloseAccess will effectively close Access, even if Db is not set to
nothing, ... just to show that other conditions have to been met to
reproduce the behavior...)

Hope it may help,
Vanderghast, Access MV^P.

Hi Liz
        Don't know if yours is the same problem but I have had a
database perform a similar feat myself. Every time I went to shut the
thing down It just minimised itself down to the task bar. The only way
that I could shut it down was to right Click on the minimised Access and
select close from there. Is this the same problem ??. If so let me know
beacause there are also another couple of bizzare happenings that
accompanied this.