Alan, if you get an Windows Message with the content: ANRB.exe isn't working propably anymore and have to be closed you can't be 100% sure that this shut-down will be performed without any harm to the programm modules of the software you're going to shutdown by that hard way.
But it seems, that AN has programmed the beta that well, that ANRB SW has savely ceased all access to the db files bevore going to nirvana. So, you can take my coment as a so called compliment.
Ingo