>THANKS
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>To make a long stroy short, the application will just be a timer program
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>It will have a wait window timeout xxx and then it will be in a continous loop that looks at a SQL data table (on Internet). If certain data has changed, it will run a local data collection routine and send teh data to the master server on teh Internet.
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>So it is the SAME LOAD on the workstation (or server) it runs on no mater if it is a VFP EXE or a Windows Service???

Basically, yes. And Service Mill will run your app as a service (even with a UI) under Vista and 2003 as well. A nice thing with Service Mill is that it can be told to auto re-start your app in the event of it exiting for some reason like an error.