Hi Ed,

>The Win2K Resource kit includes a couple of programs to use to set up a standard WinApp as a service; I don't have it installed here, but will find it when I get home and post the file names if someone else doesn't beat me to it...

Thanks very much for the offer, but I already know about these programs and how to run a regular Windows app as a service. I just wondered how I could get a COM+ application running at system startup, without having to start it with an application that runs as a service. I've already heard here that it should be possible. Or maybe I've misunderstood something and this can only be done with COM+ 1.5 which is shipped with XP.

Armin