Tom,
In addition to what Sergey said, I would also consider whether a VFP COM server might work well (either .exe or .dll) in your situation. VFP COM servers have most of the basic benefits of Windows Services...
>We are moving a system from Win98 to Win2000 Pro. The system has several programs that run in the background accepting and sending data via DDE. These programs currently have a visible window but htere really is no purpose for the window other than to close the program, which is almost never done.
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>So my question is, How can we set these programs up to as a service in Windows 2000 Pro? That way they can still be easiliy started and stopped but do not clutter the desktop or task bar.
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>Thanks,
>Tom