Background programs on Windows XP

[Martin v. Löwis]

"M.J.Fisher" <m.j.fisher at ex.ac.uk> writes:

> However, when one of the users of this program changed from Windows'95
> to WindowsXP (they also changed from Python2.1 to Python2.2 but I didn't
> think this was probably relevant) this stopped working.

Did it give any information of how it stopped? What happens if you do
this in a cmd.exe window?

Regards,
Martin