Hi!

If you have Windows NT Resource Kit, you can use the SRVAny.EXE tool that can help you run ANY program as a service.

But beware about a lot of pitfalls here. 2 of them:

1. When user log out, all applications ran under that user account are also closed. This is also for services, so configure your service to run using account that you know will never be used to log on on that machine.

2. SRVAny use TerminateProcess() Windows API function to finish the service application (for example, when server shutdown/restart). This is similar to how KILL utility works - it can stop the program from working at any moment, include at the moment when that program did not finished work correctly. For this one there is a solution that is somewhat tricky and complex. Let me know if you need such level of reliability, I will describe more...

>I want to run an vfp exe file as service on NT4 because I need that program ( who reads from an comm port) to run even if i'm not logged in .
>Thanks,Alina