http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/ What Is A Win32 Service? A Win32 service is quite similar to a Unix daemon. Basically it is a program that runs in the background. When the computer boots up Windows all of the services are started. So unlike normal applications, a user does not have to run it. As a matter in fact, the service runs even if no user is logged on. This simply means that the service will run automatically at boot time. All processes must run under a user account on Win32 machines. When you launch an application as a user, the application runs under your user account. Therefore it only has access to files and system resources that you, yourself, are allowed. Services are no different; they require a user account. When you install a Win32 service you must specify an account. Most services use the LocalSystem account, which is just another way of saying the operating system account. The LocalSystem account is what operating system services (such as the logon, remote registry, file sharing, printer sharing, event log, etc.) use. If a service is configured to use the LocalSystem, it does not need to specify any password for the account. However, if you configure a service to run under a different account they you must provide both the domain and user name along with the user account's password. In other words things beyond your control and YES you need them, read thesite it helps explain things, its also one of the item that a person cannot uncheck in msconfig because it wil reset it self and come back as by default it must be on.

process of elimination what isn't working? Just kidding.