Reboot without warning?

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

> I think the problem probably lies with how Win9x handles "services".  In
> reality, they have little in common with NT's definition of a service.
> Starting a service in Win9x could more accurately be described as a
"silent
> start" option.  An application can be launched without requiring login,
the
> app can have dependencies and it can be made "non-interactive", but that's
> about it :)  "Shutdown" behaves just like a regular application exit, and
a
> Win9x service cannot be restarted [as a service] without a reboot.

That's not true.  If you run "winvnc -service" under '9x then WinVNC will
start up as a "service".  All that service-mode does on Win95 is prevent the
OS from closing the program when the user logs out.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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