>>You're missing the header of the .REG file.
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>thanks Sergey - I now have a service!
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>The service auto-closes it seems because I need to activate an event log or something...
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>I will run the app via scheduler until I have time to revisit setting up a service.
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>This will be so neat if it really can perform without a user logged in.
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>Thanks again

You're welcome.