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I once tried using SRVANY to get it working and was unsuccesful. There was another third-party "run-anything-as-a-service" program that supposedly works. What was its name again?



I believe the product you're thinking about Tony is FireDaemon

Which works fines on Windows NT & 2K system but not currently on Windows XP [any flavour].
I gather that a newer XP supporting version is due out soon.