>I have a VFP exe called appends.exe the first line of which is to minimise the screen - I am running this as a scheduled service every 5 minutes but the app flashes across the screen before minimising
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>So how do I run a scheduled service minimised? I have tried running a batch job which runs the app - that still shows briefly on the screen
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>Any ideas?

Another approach would be to just run the app as a service.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/calvin_hsia/archive/2004/12/13/282351.aspx