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Pack 2.) After close Agent, I right-click the Stunnel icon on the task bar and choose Exit. If I try to activate Stunnel later, by double-clicking its desktop icon, I am presented with an error window headed "stunnel 4.07 on Win32" with the following message: "Failed to create a new service". Looking at Properties on the desktop, I see that the Target is "C:\stunnel\stunnel-4.07.exe -install". This looks wrong, as it appears to be the option for initial installation of the program. I assume I need to change this, or discover another method of re- [...]

You already found the culprit. The command line option "-install" attempts to install the stunnel service. As it is already present in the services list, this has to fail. You can easily start and stop stunnel using the net command from a command line window: net start stunnel to start stunnel, or: net stop stunnel to shut it down again. You could make up a batch file to launch stunnel automatically for the time agent is running: --file runagent.cmd begin-- @echo off net stunnel start C:\Program Files\Agent!\Agent32.exe net stunnel stop --file runagent.cmd end-- Just edit the path for agent32.exe to match the path where you have Forté Agent installed, and you're done. P.S. I know net stunnel start can complain about that the service is already running, but that's just cosmetical and I was too lazy to implement logic to check if the service is already running ;) Best regards, Andre