Hi DD,

How much memory does this little service consume? What do you have it doing while it is running? A timer? An infinite loop *grin*?

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>I understand your concern. <g> Fortunately the runtime will already be on the boxes so the only 'hit' would be my little app. I got it to work yesterday as a service on my computer when starting up. Now all I need to do is figure out how to trap for a shutdown.
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I guess I'm not following you here...doesn't the ON SHUTDOWN procedure fire when Windows tells your service it is going down?