Claude,

>Thanks for trying.

No problem!

>I did the same as you and wrote a VB wrapper for VFP a while back that will start a VFP exe as a service.

Yes, this way you can start/stop the service. If you want to have more control (Pause/Continue/Custom actions) you could also think of making a COM DLL out of your VFP EXE and just pass the SCM messages through the VB EXE to the VFP COM DLL as method calls. This way you can have it all :)

>I think the problem in VFP is that the C++ service controller part is working with 2 threads of VB which probably can't be duplicated in VFP...

Yeah, this might be the problem, but I have to admit, that my knowledge about these things is really limited.

Armin