Thank you for the reply Jaymer.
I've only been working with AIM since 8.4 so for about 4 years. I suspect that makes me a new user😉
The box has 16g ram.
The reason I want to run as a service is so if the Win Server has to restart, then I don't need to log into RDP and run the Control Panel so that my clients can have their application.
In this way I can have multiple users for the Win box that have different roles as well.
So, in that respect, I can see that no one else has run into this issue and I suspect it is a function of the fact that I'm running 8.4 on a Win 2022 box for the time being. That is fair. I'm in the process of upgrading some apps on another instance to AIM 9.0 and that will help me understand some of the likely nuances from the stack.
On another note the response to my posts seem to inform me that participating in this forum seems about as useful as asking a card shark their tricks. I do get it and understand why.
I also get that this forum is open to the public at large. I think this limit's it's usefulness to paid users, just sayin.
I got my answer by the near non-response so I'm good here.