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Access doesn't close properly. A remaining background process can only be terminated in task manager
Since yesterday I noticed that in all my Access databases there is a problem when I close them. When I close a database, it leaves a background process that can only be terminated in Task Mana...
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I think it may be time to have another pair of eyes on your application and trace the program flow to isolate the problem(s). This does not appear to be an Access problem per se but rather a coding issue.
It is not my application but an ancient legacy one that started leaving orphaned tasks. My only change was to delete one quit command in a sub-function which was already covered in the initial autoexe function and not needed.