Hi Frank.

>When I need to have longer tasks or scheduled tasks done by
>a COM Server (EXE) and do not want to wait for completion,
>normally do start a timer from within a StartProc and return
>immediately. Within a few ms the timer starts and actually
>Starts the process (see example below).
>
>Good approach, bad approach, any other ideas?

A friend of mine, Dan Lauer, has done a ton of work in this area, and this is the same approach he uses. It works very well.

Doug