Application as Service is an advanced system utility which lets you run any application as Windows Service, benefiting from all of the advantages native Windows services provide.

Application as Service will let your application:

• run at the specific time or date (backup utility, scheduler, etc.)
• automatically restart on power failures or application crashes (client-server utilities, databases, etc.)
• run at the predefined order (follows the service it depends upon)
• start prior to user logon (keyloggers, surveillance utilities, etc.)
• be executed with specified user rights and priority

Unlike standard services which, per se, are non-interactive and run in background, programs started by our utility could respond to user-generated events (mouse clicks/keyboard button pressing, etc.). Application as Service offers additional options such as advanced recovery (restart the service your application is started by; restart computer; launch supplementary application), sophisticated dependencies mechanism, pre-service/port-service application start-up, grant your application certain rights/priority, "consistent-application-crash" protection, forceful application exit, graceful console application exit, on-the-fly start-up customization and lots more.

Application as Service core is a command line driven application. The graphical user interface (Application as Service GUI) is a front-end to console application which helps you grasp the overwhelming number of options and simplifies the whole process of installing and launching your application as service. However, if you find it more useful and convenient for your tasks to use command line, Application as Service will help you generate command line options to automate the process in future. Alternatively, you can install and start services using XML configuration file which guarantees simple integration and extensibility of Application as Service great features into your own application (OEM license only).

Finally, this software provides all possible functionality needed to run application as services you may think of, simplifying system administration chores and software development.

What's new:

• Added: Service will shutdown the application whenever Windows shutdown event is received
• Fixed: Several minor bugs

Full features list:

• Run any application (32/64-bit and console ones, scripts like VBScript or JScript) as Windows Service
• Run application before users login into their accounts
• Minimize downtime by auto-restarting application once it is crashed
• Start/stop your application at the exact time and periodically on the defined day of the week/month/year
• Enable/disable interaction with the application which is run as service
• Achieve higher fault tolerance with your software reporting private errors to the event log and automatically restarting on errors
• Advanced service dependencies mechanism allows you to run applications at the certain order
• Define Load Order Group which your application belongs to
• Restrict/grant your application with execution rights by specifying user account name under which it is run
• On-the-fly service start-up type customization
• Gracefully close console applications
• Specify the process priority for your application (Normal/High/Real Time)
• Define CPU binding for multi-processor PCs
• Conveniently supply additional options and system environment variables for console application
• Run pre-service and post-service supplementary programs
• Redirect STDIN, STDOUT and STDERROR streams to or from the file for console application
• Run a GUI application under a different security context (even under NT 4.0). User passwords are entered by the administrator and users are not prompted
• Take all benefits of multi-processor, multi-thread and 64-bit platforms
• Works under Virtual Machines (VMWare and so on)
• Use XML configuration file to install the service
• Sample services of Calculator and Notepad can be optionally installed

Platforms "Application as service" is compatible with:

• Windows NT 4.x
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP x32
• Windows XP x64
• Windows 2003 x32
• Windows 2003 x64
• Windows Vista x32
• Windows Vista x64
• Windows 2008 x32
• Windows 2008 x64