[geeks] windows service without outside resources

Eric Railine erailine at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 09:37:43 CST 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian Dunbar wrote:
>  > Is there any way to create a Windows service that runs an .exe without
>  > using the utilities from the resource kit?  OS is Windows Server 2000.
<snip>
>  Try the "sc" command.

Unfortunately for the OP, Windows 2000 does not include sc in the base
install - it's part of the RK.  W2K3 added sc (and a number of other
tools) to the base installation.

-Eric



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