Jul 11, 2012 · As long as you are pretending to use an old and outdated program like srvany on Windows 7, you must know about the possible disadvantages of it: SrvAny disadvantages in modern Windows (extracted from AlwaysUp FAQ, so they are trying to sell you their product ;-) ). I think there are better options: 1.- The SC command (sc create MyService). 2.-

Updates of @Ohad. First of all srvany.exe is to be deployed to all machines. Step 1: Download and install Windows Resource Kit. Which was found in my box: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe . Then open command prompt and hit

I have created .exe in .net and want to use as a service, run all time on my local machine. I am using windows server 2012. how to setup a service on my local computer. **You can use windows shell

Sep 4, 2018 · Srvany.exe is an ancient program and it will work, to my best knowledge, till Windows 2003. You can just forget it existed for Windows 7/10. You can just forget it existed for Windows 7/10. To start/stop a service on Windows 7/10 (I'm using Acronis service) with the service name which is usually quite different from the display name:

Sep 18, 2019 · Srvany is a "service wrapper". It is designed to accept commands from the Services Control Manager (SCM) and perform appropriate actions on your non-service application. The SCM can send several commands to a Windows Service, including "Start", "Stop", "Pause" and "Resume".

Jun 4, 2012 · Check out srvany.exe from the Resource Kit. This will let run anything as a service. This will let run anything as a service. You can pass parameters in the service definition to your executable via srvany.exe so you could run a batch file as a …

Sep 10, 2008 · Microsoft is trying to keep device drivers out of the GUI. Device drivers can still run a GUI if under Services -> Properties, 'Log On -> Allow service to interact with desktop' is selected.

AlwaysUp is a commercial alternative to SrvAny which covers shortcomings like this one in addition to adding more useful features. NSSM is a open source alternative with slightly fewer features than AlwaysUp but still it can kill the underlying process when you stop the service.

Aug 6, 2015 · Use srvany to set the program as a custom service. Note that when you do this with for example dropbox, googledrive, etc., you will need stop the service, then open the program normally to make changes like password, updates, etc.

As we were not able to find a favourable solution within available time, we decided to not use the srvany.exe. We decided to use YAJSW and within InstallShield use "Text File Changes" to modify the wrapper.conf for the YAJSW to launch our java application.