What's the difference between process and application?

[bupkus]

What's the difference between process and application?

Using W2K, and want to run an internet app as a process so it will continue regardless who loggs on or off.

 

[Nothinman]

Search is good

But, what you want is a service.

 

[bupkus]

Service or process, does anyone have a reference where I can read about turning an application into a service?

 

[Nothinman]

Look up srvany, I think that's what it's called.

 

[PrincessGuard]

SRVANY is a pain to setup (manual registry editing and what-not) but it gets the job done.

Someone on this board suggested FireDaemon.

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: bupkus
Service or process, does anyone have a reference where I can read about turning an application into a service?

You need to write it from the ground up to be a service. Srvany is a hack.

If you need a service, write a service. If you need an app, write an app.