Craig
As always - thank you for your response. Will give it a go!
Barry

>Setup an account just for that exe, then in Windows Scheduler, set the application to use that account and run, even if not logged on. You shouldn't use the account of a particular person. If that person leaves the company and their account is deleted, you'll start to get all kinds of failures.
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>>This is not directly a VFP query, but I was hoping someone might be able to help
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>>I have a VFP exe that I want to schedule to run at midnight on our company server. It appears that the exe will not run if an Administrator is not logged on. We can get round this by locking the server rather than logging off, but there is a risk that the exe might not run if the administrator is inadvertently logged off. Is there anyway around this?
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>>A colleague suggested that the exe had to be written as a service - but I do not know how to do this.
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>>Thanks for any advice
>>Barry Sutton.