Chris,

I totally agree with your opinion on sevices, run as few as possible!

The KxRpc service is one of the excepts for me.

I havent heard of any situations where the KxRpc service was in any way the culprit of:
forcing the server to cloce, taking over the CPU(Time) or in any other way disturb the
network/server.

AND I don't have to reread the manual for every new relase of KiXtart to see if my script-problems
has something to do with changes in the KxRpc-service or the Win9x-DLL's.
As long as i upgrade the KxRpc-service and Win9x-DLL's every time i upgrade to a new public release,
i have never expirienced any problems.

Summing this up:
I would advice you to install the service and use the Win9x-DLL's as long as you have Win9x clients
on your network, at least your script-errors will not come from unsupported functions and macros on
Win9x-clients.

-Erik