I tried that and it did work when done from the command line.

I then had to create a BAT file in the STARTUP folder so that it will
start when the computer starts. Do you know of any other way to get
it to start on computer startup?

Thanks.

--- In ib-support@y..., "Artur Anjos" <arsoft@n...> wrote:
> Gerald:
>
> Please try as I told you, using fbserver -a
> That will make it run as application, as you want to.
>
> Artur
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Brown" <gerbreown@y...>
> To: <ib-support@y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:54 PM
> Subject: [ib-support] Re: Firebird not starting on Win 2000 system
>
>
> > The problem is that when I click on it NOTHING happens. It doesn't
> > run as either a service or an application.