>I have a VFP8 program starting as a Windows Service and running under the Local System user. I used the MS utilities INSTSRV.EXE and SRVANY.EXE to create the registry entries for the service, and the program does successfully Start and Stop.
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>The problem is that the program opens up a file, and when the service is Stopped (manually through Services), there is a .tmp file being left in the Windows\Temp folder because the file in the program is not being properly closed when the Stop is issued.
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>Is there a way for a program to detect that the service that started it has stopped? I use "On Shutdown" to detect a reboot, and that works fine, but it sure doesn't detect the service stopping.
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>Thanks,
>Curt

Would this work for you http://www.berezniker.com/display/VFP/Windows+Service+Status ?