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I had thought of that before myself. I created and brand new blank database, added a new blank form with events on the 'on open' and 'on close', added the autoexec to start it up when I open the database. I even went so far as to do the Allen Browne technique of decompiling and turning off the...

Thank you very much! The Unload event does fire when I exit. That will fix my problem. Leaves me to wonder though why the Close event isn't set up to fire on exit? Microsoft, any comments?

For testing purposes I simply put a stop command in the On Close event. I also tried a messagebox. Neither worked when I X'd out of Access. They did work fine however when I closed the form manually.

I have created a hidden form that opens with an autoexec macro when I open my database. It does some startup routines that run fine. However, I also need to do some clean up on shutdown so I have hooked some code on the 'On Close' event of the hidden form. When I exit Access 2007 SP2 from the...