Can a nt service running under administrator account interact with desktop. thanks in advance

Thx for you quick reply. BTW when will i have to use and learn to use DACL. Any simple situation where i cannot survive with a knowledge of DACL.

PostQuitMessage(0); form within another UI Thread will not exit the application. But PostMessage(hWnd,WM_QUIT,0,0); will be caught by the underlying handlers and the application will get exited for sure, provided its the handle to the main window. so i feel suhredyan's method atleast ensures that the application is exited.

wot is the best way to check whether internet is connected. Other than pinging or downloading file from a known server.

class a{ public: a():rs(&db) {} CRecordset rs;//line a CDatabase db; //line b }; // my question is shld line b comes before line a

ie, i have got a running live sql server. Now i have installed sql server on one more system in my LAN. I want this new server to be a realtime backup of my live server. so that i can switch when ever there s a problem. wots the easiest way. and would be great if only datas(records are backed not the entire settings of the live server).

How to change the description of an service shown in SCM

can a application restart by itself, any way to do that. or can a NT service restart by itself.

i have a 24*7 highly database intensive mfc application. using cdatabase and crecordset objects. it starts with 8mb and gradually increases to 34 mb (peak is shown as 60 mb)by task mgr, withing one day. Im sure of no memory leak. But sure windows is reserving (may be caching) the memory for my application, which is shown accross my application by task mgr. is there any way to avoid this behaviour and make the application to take only that memory taken in the first couple of hours and not more. So my question without any memory leak is this behaviour possible. any remedy to avoid this behaviour. like registery settings to avoid caching or something else...

why is it said not to initialize in cwinthread constructor but in InitInstance()..

Oops! 'this' - word is hyperlinked to the article Sorry for my wrong assumption.!!

I didn't get what u mean by."Read the last section of this article" Last section of which article shud i read ? Can u please help me out.