Macro as a 2K Service

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:17 am

I found this NT Service Utility page with the following information:

The Windows NT/2000/XP Resource Kit provides two utilities that allow you to create a Windows NT user-defined service for Windows NT applications and some 16-bit applications (but not for batch files).

Has anyone tried these tools to have a Macro Scheduler normal or compiled scp run as a Service on a Win2K system (or ony other qualified OS)?

support · Post by **support** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:00 am

What, you mean like this:
http://www.mjtnet.com/index.htm?msfaq6.html

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:06 pm

Yup, just like that!

After all these years I have never seen that. I thought I just came up with a new idea. Thanks for confirming my thoughts about using this. As they say, great minds think alike.

I guess I will move forward and try it out.

Thanks again for the great support.

armsys · Post by **armsys** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:10 pm

Hi Bob,

I still can't figure out a way to apply it. Hope you'll publish some of your successful applications on this forum. Thanks in advance.

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:17 pm

An alternative to the microsoft tools is firedaemon http://www.firedaemon.com/

FireDaemon is a utility that allows you to install and run virtually any native Win32 application or script (eg. BAT/CMD, Perl, Java, Python, TCL/TK) as a Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 & Longhorn service. FireDaemon features easy configuration (via GUI or XML), a low memory/CPU overhead, subprocess prioritisation, custom environments, CPU binding plus monitoring and logging to the event log and on-disk log files.

I've heard good things about it but haven't used it.