Hi,
thanks for getting back to me.

my problem is that I can sucessfully create the iexplore process, it is visable from the task manager, I just cant visably see it, which I would like to.

When taking the code to call Internet explorer and put it into a basic command line script (as opposed to a service) it works fine.

I think the problem lies in and around the fact that as the service has not got an active/displayed window, I think this is "inherited" to process's created from it, hence my Internet explorer window is running but just has no window visable...argh.
I think all I need is some way to tell the process that it's window should be visable. I tried using Win32::SetChildShowWindow to display the window but didnt get anywhere (i can post code if needed)
jd

In reply to Re^2: Starting a process from a win32 perl service by displeaser
in thread Starting a process from a win32 perl service by displeaser

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