Does anybody know how to run an application as a service on Windows NT/2000? I have a Visual Basic program that peeks/pokes memory. However, some of direct memory access are not allowed in Windows NT/2000. I heard that it should be ok if I run the application as a service. Thank you for help.

Try using SRVANY, or "service any". if you go to lycos.com and use their ftp search engine you should be able to find it with any problems.

One thing though, I doubt it will work. Direct access is DIRECT ACCESS whether its a service or not. If it works let us know...

Thank you for your excellent response!!

Yeah, you are right. I have successfully installed my application as a service with the suggested tools (instsrv.exe and srvany.exe), but still encountered a problem with direct memory access.

Nevertheless, I found a site that may help me. I have not tried yet, but will do it soon. The site is listed on the bottom.

* Reference for User-Defined Serivce on NT/2K
http://www.pyeung.com/userdefinedservice.html

* Reference for I/O Port Control on NT/2K
http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm

My initial test was successful with PortTalk (ref. #2 above). I used allowio.exe to open up a port to read/write data successfully. I need to further investigate this for my application, but it looks promising.

There is a question: Does anybody know how Microsoft Windows 2000 memmory is configured? I need to know this so that I don't create any conflict with operating system when I access memmory under Windows 2000.