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by pmaio

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I have a printscreen program called Screen Shot. It worked fine in windows 98 and when I first installed windows 2000 for a while. It is now a 'stealth' program, by that I mean that it works OK, I can still print my screen with it but I cannot see the program.

It is in my startup folder and evidently starts OK, but it dosen't show in the system tray where it usually resides. It also does not show as a running program in the Applications tab of Task Manager although it is listed in the Processes tab.

Needless to say, I can't get into the program change any options or settings if I need to.

Any thoughts??

Phil Maio

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by r. a. caluste

The program has been registered to run as a "service". It means you will be able to see it in the processes tab but not in the applications tab. You can look for it under control panel/administrative tool/services. From here you can start/stop/restart/pause/resume the program and other configurations.

hope this helps.

by stryker123

if it installed as a service, open the properties, then select the "Log On" tab and check "Allow service to interact with desktop"

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