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What is the best program to use on windows XP and Windows 7 to do what srvany.exe does on windows NT (run a process as a service)?
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What is the best program to use on windows XP and Windows 7 to do what srvany.exe does on windows NT (run a process as a service)?
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srvany
, of course.
Windows XP and 7 are NT, and the srvany
from Windows 2003 ResKit works just fine on them.
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There is NSSM http://iain.cx/src/nssm/
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Windows comes with the SC.exe
tool which allows you to directly create and modify services.
Simply go to an elevated Command Prompt and type:
sc.exe create <Service Name> binPath= <Path> DisplayName= <name>
For example, to create a (useless) notepad service, you could use:
sc.exe create MyNotepadService binPath= "C:\windows\notepad.exe" DisplayName= "My notepad Service"
(Please note, spacing after the equals and before the value is important)
You can then start the service from the command prompt using SC start <Service Name>
or through the services section of Computer Management
.
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FireDaemon. You have to pay for it but it has a lot of features and works well.
11If the exe doesn't respond to service commands, then I believe it will not work with sc. For example cmd.exe won't run at all unless you set it as interactive, which is depreciated in vista and 7 and doesn't work either. – myforwik – 2010-05-28T05:10:04.027