>Sorry, I misunderstood your original question. I think the problem is that the service is actually running SRVANY.EXE which then calls your VFP EXE. I don't think SRVANY checks to see if your application is continuously running. To work around this issue I would suggest the following:
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>1. If your are only deploying this to a small number of PCs, consider using a 3rd party product like FireDaemon (http://www.firedaemon.com/). This program will let you run almost any program as a service and has some cool features such as auto-restart after failure.
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>2. If you are deploying to many PCs (i.e. vertical market application), consider using a 3rd party product like
>Server for ActiveX (http://www.dart.com/). This ActiveX control let's you register your application as a real windows service, has hooks so that you can respond to a service stop/pause command (i.e. close tables and quit). It also includes methods for writing to the windows event log.


Thanks for the tips Frank, I have seen Dart mentioned on here in several old threads, however they do not list a product that does what you are mentioning. I called them and they did not know what I needed either from their products.

The firedaemon doesn't seem to deal gracefully with letting VFP know to shutdown either (from the docs). I have seen several utilities like this one, the clean shutdown is what I need right now.