BernieR

I'm a really raw newbie to this Uniform Server thingie. I've just taken on a new job and a smallish mostly MS network. U.S. is running on an XP box that is doing duty as an Intranet Server with a few PHP based programs that have, ummm, uncertain dependencies. My inspection of the said Intranet box and the answers above lead me to believe that U.S. runs on Windows as an application: that is, it runs only after being manually started or at least upon logon by some user with suitable rights whose Startup folder contains a Shortcut to U.S. Indeed it runs quite well here but I'd rather not have a network Server (whatever the OS) that requires a user to be logged in all the time. So, can this U.S. thing run as a Windows Service straight out of the box? If so how? Any documentation on this? Any, so-far, undocumented sage wisdom available? Or, am I destined to switch my "brand" of WAMP, to WAMP5 for example, which permits running the package as an application or installing it as a (set of) services and consequently starts and stops with the machine rather than a user's logon session? (I'd really rather not switch unless absolutely necessary of course.) Or, would I have to pursue the make-an-application-run-as-a-service strategy with "SRVANY" (etc.) from the ResKit for W2k+3 (or is that W2k-45?)? Any leads at all? BernieR