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)?
4 Answers
srvany
, of course.
Windows XP and 7 are NT, and the srvany
from Windows 2003 ResKit works just fine on them.
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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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.– myforwikMay 28, 2010 at 5:10