how to run a program as a service?

[Gorgonzola]

i would like to run my foldings@home console in the background out of view. how can i do this? i would still like to be able to call the program up occasionally when i want to see what it is doing.

can someone please enlighten me?

thanks!

 

[Gorgonzola]

sorry, i should have added that one computer is running win2k, and the other winxp

 

[zodder]

Try posting this in the Distributed Computing forum.