This is a curious one!! I have a program that runs on a client's server as just a regular app. The only thing unusual about it is that there is just one form in this app and it runs as a top-level form, but that's not really all that unusual. It has been running in its current incarnation since 1-July-04. Its job is simply to create a text file each night at 7:30 that is then transferred to the corporate office server where the data in the file is imported to another app that does some web reporting for clients. At first I was going to make this a system service, but there was no great need to run it that way, so it just runs on the desktop like any other app (it's in the Startup folder so that if the server is rebooted, it will fire up). Anyway, the other day I was trying to update the EXE and although it was not running, I could not overwrite it. It was not visible on screen, in the taskbar, or in Task Manager. So we had to reboot the server. It seemed to start just fine, but last night when creating the text file, it loaded the file with duplicate data. That was the first time it had ever done that. This evening it created the file just fine, but once again we have a situation where the program has vanished - it's not visible on screen, in the taskbar, or in Task Manager. And once again we can't do anything with the EXE (like rename or delete it). This program has been running fine since initially implemented in March with a few tweaks and new features along the way, but nothing new since July 1st. The disappearing act it's now doing is recent and quite strange. Has anyone seen this type of strange behavior?

Thanks,

Russell Campbell