If you have old FoxPro Advisor magazines (or the DVD) accessible there is an article about this. You can check out this:
http://my.advisor.com/doc/14938but it won't let you see the entire article unless you're a subscriber. Looks like it's Jan. 2005, page 15. But that article helped me do it. The only thing was that the icon in the system tray would disappear even though the service was still running. Never did get that one figured out.
>Vielen Dank!
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>I actually managed to make this work, in the sense that I actually managed to install an EXE created with Visual FoxPro, as a service.
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>Now, the next problem (sigh). We want this service to run all the time, independent of a particular user (that is, before login, after closing a session) - that was the idea of running as a service in the first place. However, when I close my session, Windows tries to close the program.
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>Do you know whether any special properties have to be set for the service? Such as running under a specific account or pseudo-account, etc.
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>>Here is a free Utility you can try:
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http://www.pirmasoft.com/runassvc.php>>
>>Christoph