Labview executable does not exit memory when closed

Hello everyone. I have been tasked with upgrading some of our vis from labview 6.0 to 8.5.1 . I was able to create new executables and run the vis just fine in 8.5. However, when I close the vis in question, the window dissapears just fine, but the process remains in memory causing me to have to go to the task manager and manually kill the process. Does anyone know what generally might cause this sort of problem to occur? This did not happen when the program was in version 6.0. Thank you for your help.

I went ahead and added an event handler "application instance close" and I added the quit labview module connected to a boolean constant of true. It's weird because the .vi running closes, but the executable remains in my task bar.
In other words, when I execute my .exe, I have ________.exe and _______.vi running. When I hit the red 'x' for my .vi, it closes but not the .exe. When I call file>quit in the .vi, they both close.
Edit: To be clearer, adding the above did not close the .exe portion when I hit the x out button in my .vi window.
Message Edited by pacman326 on 07-24-2008 10:03 AM

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