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Compile into a service/service installer

Post by newuser » Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:56 pm

After I came across this tool in softpedia below

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programmin ... tion.shtml

I wonder if its possible that a feature similar to the tool above, to allow the ms script compile as a service/service installer. :?:

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:45 pm

This tool converts VBScript to a .exe. Macro Scheduler Pro already converts macro scheduler scripts to exes.

If you then want to launch one of those exes as a service you can do that with SrvAny or similar: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

Frankly - before people get excited - I don't see the benefit. It certainly won't have any benefits for 99.99% of macros. Most macros - indeed the main point of Macro Scheduler macros - perform user simulation and control a user interface. Since no UI is present when the machine is locked/logged out there is little to gain from having the macro run as a service.

If you have a macro that does NOT need to see a UI and does NOT need to access any user level resource then it might be useful but then I'd wonder why you are using Macro Scheduler anyway ;-)

Since most macros need to run as a user and access UI elements/simulate user activity it is better to run them as user level processes on startup. Making them run as a service won't help.
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Post by newuser » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:11 pm

Marcus Tettmar wrote: If you then want to launch one of those exes as a service you can do that with SrvAny or similar: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890
SrvAny is consider third party tool in this case. I hope it would be a standalone MS tool. :(
Marcus Tettmar wrote: If you have a macro that does NOT need to see a UI and does NOT need to access any user level resource then it might be useful but then I'd wonder why you are using Macro Scheduler anyway ;-)
Bacause MS have become so powerful, that I could use it for things other than perform user simulation and control a user interface. :wink:

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