Please kindly provide me with some technical advice on my problem

l would like to develop a background process which run around-the-clock
to monitor the arrival of request at a MSMQ.

1) should that background process be developed as ActiveX Exe project ?

2) How can my process continue to poll the arrival of request at the queue
and response to it immediately ? In the meantime, it should avoid take up
a lot of resource of the system during polling the queue.

3) How can l make the process start automatically whenever the machine start
up.?

4) How can l make the server alert me by either paging me or sending me an
e-mail
when that background process is down.?

thanks and regards
Ah So