Hi Jamie,

all my questions are answered with my testing, both test only showed the
memory leak and nothing else as cleaning up was the only variable but the
results were the same (= no effect of the variable).

From your earlier post, it seems
you may be experiencing a double leak i.e. one from the open xls and
one from the Foxpro source.

There's no difference when testing the mdb-linked foxpro table with and w/o
cleaning up. you know, I'm testing the vehicle not the head;) I did not pay
enough attention on my first quick test, now, both tests showed 43 sec and
23 MB of RAM with a result table of 540rows x 34cols, 30 queries, Ram
started with 16.8MB.

regards

arno