How to run a program as a Service

[tain]

But doesn't sc.exe applies to .EXE files?

Yes. What are you trying to do?

Just stumbled onto this page today:

Quick Start Multiple Services using Batch and Net

Nothing new, but demonstrates usage of the batch commands.

[axelabs]

srvany.exe worked for me. A few things... I specifically had to use instsrv.exe and not the builtin sc.exe command to get it to register properly. Also, I downloaded the Resource Kit directly from microsoft and then extracting only the two utilities by first extracting it to a temp location and then installing the msi into a directory.

rktools.exe /T:C:\Temp\rktools /C

msiexec  /qn /i rktools.msi RKTOOLS="C:\Temp\rktools\Tools

[jaclaz]

Just for the record, nowadays I would rather use NSSM:

NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager

http://nssm.cc/

as it worked for me nicely more than once

jaclaz

[TELVM]

Just for the record, nowadays I would rather use NSSM:

NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager

http://nssm.cc/

as it worked for me nicely more than once

jaclaz

Wow highly interesting! Does NSSM work in XP and Se7en Jaclaz?

EDIT- Never mind: "... nssm should work under Windows 2000 or later. Specifically, Windows 7 and Windows 8 are supported. 32-bit and 64-bit binaries are included in the download ..."

Edited February 20, 2014 by TELVM