Limited information on the code other than to say that I have a project called EMPS_Admin that uses a form to read/update registry key values and start/stop a service called EMPS. Funny thing is that when I quit/cancel EMPS_Admin, it kills the EMPS service. There is no code on shutdown that should affect the EMPS service. Any thoughts? I'll post code if anyone wants to see it, but there's a bunch and as much as I can tell, it's not code-specific as much as it is simply that when the EMPS_Admin closes, so does the EMPS service that's running. I'm using Shell.Execute.StopService and StartService and IsServiceRunning to handle the EMPS service, but nothing runs on shutdown except CLEAR READ.