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>Hi,
>
>I have a small app that IT people wants to turn into a win2k service. It runs ok when in normal use, but when the IT people turn it into a service (using srvany.exe and srvinstw.exe, according to each program's instructions) and starts it we get the message:
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>Could not start the Lixo2 service on Local Computer
>Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion..
>
>"Lixo2" was the assigned service name. Below is the prg listing:
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> nMessage = 0
>
> Do While .T.
>
>    nMessage = nMessage + 1
>
>    SendMapiMail ("This is message #" + lTrim (Transform (nMessage, "999")))
>
>    Inkey (20)
>
> EndDo
>
> Quit
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> Function SendMapiMail  && Sends email messages thru MAPI.
> LParameters pMessage
>  ...
> Return
> EndFunc
>

>What should I do in order to make it run ok as a service (if a VFP exe can run as a service)?
>
>I'm using VFP6 SP5 in a win2k PC.
>
>TIA
>
>Fernando