> > not so tricky - you still have access to the services manager and from
> > within the app you do your backup. - reasonably trivial
>
> I agree it can be done, but you can't compare spawning a thread and
> running the service manager from within that thread to putting a batch
> file into the windows scheduler ;)
>
> Adam

hmm, I don't do it like that (spawn another thread) - my desktop apps run a
modal window with a backup memo running. it uses the current connection but
since it's modal I don't see an issue - is there one?
Alan