[Xitami] Running Xitami as a service under Win9x

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <002301c0f4a4$b6338ee0$659305c3@futures>
   "Michael S. Kazarin" writes:
> Hi!
> 
> Perhaps that info can help:
> 
> Before I started exploring Xitami on w2k I used to run GUI version of Xitami
> on Win9x,ME (xiwin32.exe). There is the way to start Xitami at pre-login as
> a service.
> You simply hack a registry a bit. Go to
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\RunServices. Create new
> REG_SZ there. Moify it to contain C:\Xitami\xiwin32.exe (or whatever your
> path will be). Bingo. Now your Xitami will start early before anyone logs in

BTDTGTTS.  Yes indeed one can edit the registry like this, and it did
indeed start up before anyone had logged in...

> and stay running after logout till you shut down.

However, this bit is untrue; the process is terminated as soon as the
first user logs out again.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs