How do I add a program as a service in Windows XP?

[Antoneo]

Hrmm, I've tried searching on the forums, got a few hits and got nothing working. I am trying to get Nero DriveSpeed to start up as a service (my other thread) since it gives me a strange error when logging in on another [limited user] account. Initially, I didn't think that would work either but then I stumbled across another problem that has me puzzled (I hated being puzzled but it still occurs more often than I'd like ).

I can't even get notepad.exe to properly start up as a service. I've completed the instructions outlined in this MSKB article and still no go. I had to fiddle around with the quotations around the paths to get it to look like it was working though. But still it was a no go. What am I doing wrong? This should be a easy thing to do, judging from the instructions but I've spent too much time on this :|. And yes, I have the resource kit with the instsrv and svrany executables. Is it vastly different in Windows XP SP2?

 

[KB]

The MSKB article should work since little has changed in XP in the way of service handling. Remember that when an executable is run as a service, it will not show up in your GUI because it is running under a different user. Did you check taskmanager to see if the process is loaded?

 

[dwcal]

Try this:

RUNEXESVC

 

[Antoneo]

Alright here's what has gone on. I've tried just about everything under the sun to get this working. Spent way too much time on such a trivial matter but I learned a bit so that is nice. Here are the instructions I used that worked for me: another thread in AT

It was a very curious ordeal; with the MS2k3 method in their knowledgebase, the directions would sometimes it would work, other times it would not.

KB, what exactly do you mean by a different user? Do you mean SYSTEM? I understand that I'm not supposed to see the service running (unless I click that option interact with desktop) but was curious if that was what you meant.

Thanks dwcal for the program, turned out I didn't need it.